(August 7, 2014 at 10:11 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: Wait.Yep. Keep in mind that what they are looking for is people who are feeling down in some way. Lots of people will overreact to the seeming constant barrage of bad news that the media covers, as well as whatever current problems are going on in their own lives. It's not uncommon to find a lot of people who --at least temporarily-- feel as if they're at the end of their rope. Those people will grasp for any hope offered to them. And if there's one thing religion offers in spades, it is hope. A false hope, perhaps, but that's enough for someone who is desperate a lot of the time.
The whole sales pitch revolves around "A pretty rare tragedy just occurred which indicates that the entire world is completely falling apart. So, I can sigh you up for God, right?" Really?
"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
