(August 11, 2014 at 9:15 am)Tobie Wrote: You won't get anywhere with a "you lot killed people too" argument.That might actually be the most relevant reply, though. If the best argument they can make is that they're only slightly better than the worst murdering scum in history, it doesn't really say much for the transformative power of truth or light or spirituality or whatever it is they're peddling.
"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