(December 1, 2014 at 10:36 am)whatever Wrote: I was raised as an Episcopalian, but my family rarely attended church. When I was in college, I decided I needed some evidence for God's existence such as a conversion experience, speaking in tongues, or something. Nothing I tried worked, so I decided that even if God exists he doesn't like me. So I gave-up on Christianity in college.Someone call Drich; we got another guy who gave up too soon!
Just kidding. It's natural for people not to want to hear things that challenge what we believe. For something as important to us as religion (or lack of same) the walls we put up can be very rigid. So it's not surprising if people react in such a manner on a religious forum if you tell them that you think their religion is false. For a devout religious person that's a pretty heavy charge to level.
"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
