(June 26, 2014 at 4:29 pm)ronedee Wrote: Has anyone considered that "faith" works.... for those who have it?As a motivating force, it can work, yes. Many successful people use similar techniques to motivate themselves. If you convince yourself that you can achieve something, you're more likely to give it your full effort and thus more likely to achieve it. Prayer is a form of affirmation, in that the rote repetition of thematic messages can subconsciously move a person to act.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
