(December 2, 2014 at 4:24 pm)watchamadoodle Wrote: Does anybody have any ideas about the future of Christianity in the US?Its influence will wane very slowly, IMO. They still have political clout and there are large parts of the country where Christianity is quite deeply entrenched. The appearance of "libertarians" could signal a change, as it seems to me that most people who identify as libertarian in the US are really just conservatives who reject most of the faith-based portions of the GOP platform (which doesn't leave much aside from economic policy and gung-ho patriotism, when you think about it).
"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
