(December 24, 2014 at 7:15 pm)abaris Wrote: Really? Your parents can make this decision for you until you're 18?I'm not sure where the legal boundaries are, but a person is not a legal adult until 18 and is restricted in other ways (purchasing alcohol, for example) until 21. I don't know if a parent can legally force a child to go to church, but without the recourse of simply leaving home and going it on his own as a legal adult, his options are limited.
"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
