(January 28, 2015 at 2:48 pm)watchamadoodle Wrote: Imagine you conquer some pagans and force them to become Christians. How do you accomplish that when people are very attached to their old religion?The threat of force. Even if it's just used as a background factor. "We'll accommodate your religion as best we can, but if we can't come to an agreement where our god is supreme, we will stamp out your god."
"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
