(October 9, 2014 at 1:09 pm)Surgenator Wrote: Is religion, in general, afraid of higher education?The JWs are a doomsday cult, constantly warning the membership that the end of the "present system of things" is near. As in "any day now" near. As in "it could be tomorrow" near. As in "why the fuck won't god wipe these assholes out already" near.
Basically, anything that takes time away that could be spent waking people up on a weekend morning is bad, because what if you're in college learning something useless like biology (fucking darwinists!!!) and Jesus comes riding down out of the clouds with a sword hanging out of his mouth, ready to kick ass for the lord? Learn something useful like carpentry or masonry, so you can build houses on the carcasses of the wicked.
"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
