RE: Yeah....Way Too Many Fucking Morons Running Around Loose in this Country
January 29, 2015 at 9:27 pm
(January 29, 2015 at 5:44 pm)Beccs Wrote: Why is it that you hear winners in sporting events say things like, "I won thanks to God!" but never hear the losers say, "I prayed and I still lost. I lost because of God. What a prick!"You forget the theist mindset. If they lost, it's because they needed to learn some lesson, or god was testing them, or it made them rely on their emotional strength and now they're a better person...
...you know, all that bullshit that losers say to try and feel better about fucking up in the biggest game of their lives.
"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
