(February 1, 2015 at 11:39 am)Blackout Wrote: So my question is - Don't atheists have the burden of evidence as well when we make claims?Yes, if you make a claim to knowledge, it is reasonable to expect you to back it up with something, because you are saying that you know something to be true. So it makes sense that you would be expected to explain how you know.
"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