(October 22, 2014 at 9:33 am)jeroenymo Wrote: However, where does this concept stop?It stops with the realization that there are potentially thousands of religions with tens of thousands of denominations, and that many of them demand exclusive devotion (ie, you must worship their god, their way) in order to avoid hellfire. Which means that no matter what you choose, you'll probably get it wrong and burn for an eternity, so shouldn't you have some fun before the fire starts?
"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
