(December 11, 2014 at 12:05 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Would they respect your views?This. I would add a reminder that if they have been taught by religion to feel terror or to shun you because you found your own path, that is not your fault. Religion uses misplaced guilt to keep people in line, when deception and ignorance no longer suffice.
"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
