(January 2, 2015 at 10:02 am)W.Smith Wrote: What do you all think about this 'something more than our normal life'?Perhaps we need to approach it from another angle. To wit- what drives this thought? Most likely, the desire for it to be true. But as we usually learn very early on, wanting something to be true is insufficient. I neither expect nor demand anything more from life, as I've had a fairly pleasant one and been happy for most of it. I am not even sure that I would want there to be an afterlife, but that's mostly because I am so unconcerned about it that I don't spend any time thinking about it.
"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
