RE: No rational case for God = increasingly desperate attacks on atheists
July 16, 2014 at 1:01 pm
(July 16, 2014 at 12:25 pm)JesusHChrist Wrote: Just what *is* the proper sphere religion occupies? Ethics? Law? Morality? Philosophy? Theology?I dunno. Maybe it should occupy this sphere:
"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