(December 27, 2014 at 8:10 am)fr0d0 Wrote: I agree. Although I see his model fail. Unbelievably many people didn't.Indeed, I think Hubbard deliberately pushed it as far as he did to see just how many people would accept such a premise. Although it might seem stranger than the abrahamic religions simply because we're so used to those stories. At the same time, it has become pretty common for people to determine that some Bible stories are literal and others are allegory, allowing them to find a level that suits them. I don't know if Scientology is anything like that.
"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