(August 19, 2014 at 3:20 pm)Goosebump Wrote: Most religious people suffer from self delusion, self aggrandizement, superiority complex, egomaniac tendencies and a lack of empathy that they can only shed by accepting not to believe those religious teachings.I think it is true. I also think Chad's comment is true. Condescending, yes. But also true.
"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
