(December 24, 2014 at 3:14 am)Minimalist Wrote: Was your devout Catholic mother also open to the possibility that her religion was a pile of shit?Yep. They pretend that Pascal's Wager is just a shot in the dark, but they're 101% certain that their bet is on the right number.
Didn't think so. It's always a one way street with these clowns.
"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
