(December 13, 2014 at 12:14 pm)Spooky Wrote: I am very well read on most major religions,Be aware that if you are an atheist, you'll be constantly reminded that you "obviously haven't read [holy book]" by whichever theist you just pantsed in any given discussion. Because as you no doubt are aware, [holy book] is written in such a clear and unambiguous manner that it can't possibly be misunderstood or misinterpreted unless the [personification of evil] has pulled the wool over your poor godless eyes.
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"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
