(December 17, 2014 at 11:37 am)SoFarEast Wrote:Relax. It was simply too good a straight line to resist.(December 17, 2014 at 10:51 am)Tonus Wrote: "When [you] turned?" What, did an atheist bite you on the neck?Turned against religion. Geez!!
Quote:You appeared disappointed that rejecting god and religion did not change some of the other cultural attitudes among your fellow atheists in your area. I am pointing out that changing your views on god and religion will not wipe out those other views. They are not necessarily part of the same "package," so to speak.(December 17, 2014 at 10:51 am)Tonus Wrote: Becoming an atheist only fixes one of the things you are wrong about.Yeah, well I'm saying that too. When did I oppose that? When!!
"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
