(January 22, 2015 at 8:20 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Why has football become such a religious sport?It's not the only sport where players will credit god in some way or another. If you get a person who is either religious enough, nutty enough, or shrewd enough (ie, play to the crowd... remember that this is the USA) he'll throw a bit of Jesus into everything. Russell Wilson can stand there and say that his poor performance in a game was "god testing" him so that the eventual victory would feel sweeter, and no one bats an eye. If he says "I'm an atheist" he'll get letters calling him a "fucking fuckity fucker" and "commie faggot" from a few hundred tolerant Christians.
"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
