(October 21, 2014 at 11:48 am)professor Wrote: Ya know, I can't speak for all of us, but I can speak for myself and a bunch of us.So you and that "bunch" had to overcome stubbornness and pride to find god. I overcame them to realize that he isn't there. So we're back at square one, it seems.
The last thing I wanted to do was to abandon my personal sovereignty and lay it at God's feet.
"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
