(September 24, 2014 at 5:42 pm)Rogue Wrote: I like atheist, they don't like me. I relate to it. I once was atheist.Perhaps you read the wrong "how to be an atheist" brochure. Mine didn't advise me to dislike theists. Granted, I'm a bit lazy and skimmed over some of the wordier sections, but still.
"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
