(August 9, 2014 at 1:38 pm)Polaris Wrote: More and more, as outspoken atheists become more acknowledged and seen in the public sphere, I am noticing from my American friends a "No True Atheist" fallacy now being use.It's an easier line to draw, though. If you're not a true atheist, then you're... a theist.
I guess as atheism becomes more popular in the States, you will see more and more outspoken atheists being shunned for not being secular (educated, rational, logical) enough for other atheists.
"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
