(October 19, 2014 at 12:45 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Thoughts?The impression I get is that it's a way to say that atheists are religious too, and therefore they continue to believe in god on some level and are using "the religion of atheism" as an attempt at filling that god-shaped gap in our spiritual hearts. I just shrug my shoulders at that sort of thing, because it's just another claim that I can't disprove to their satisfaction. If your worldview depends on certain things being true, then you may need to hammer a few square pegs into a few round holes from time to time.
"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
