(October 11, 2014 at 12:37 pm)Retrolord Wrote: My honest opinion- you don't want to immerse yourselves and find out more about it.Many of us were raised in the Christian faith and followed it for many years. It was the desire to find god and learn more about him that led us to atheism. You may wish to protect your beliefs by telling yourself that the doubters are simply ignorant or afraid, but my impression is that you're projecting when you do that. Your need to characterize atheists in that manner should tell you something about your own faith.
"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
