(December 3, 2014 at 2:12 pm)robvalue Wrote: I've kind of been mulling over whether I should debate JW that come to bug me. I have the right since they knocked on my door spouting garbage. I guess it would at least stop them coming back.Do some google searches and you should be able to find stuff about the organization's past that will send them screaming from your door. The organization conditions members to avoid any mention of information critical of it; and I mean that they are to treat it like radioactive waste. Especially any mention of Raymond Franz, who had become a member of their governing body in the 70s and wound up writing a book that reads like an expose of the Watchtower Society.
"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
