(October 5, 2014 at 10:32 am)Retrolord Wrote: For starters I'd like to ask you what did you dislike about Christianity (apart from the practitioners).I did not become an atheist because of things (or people) that I disliked. I simply sought out the truth and did not find it there.
"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
