(February 1, 2015 at 10:11 am)Rhythm Wrote:It seems to me that often, the argument is actually "your religion is immoral according to your own religion's moral code." It's not my fault if a theist interprets his holy book to determine that A is a sin, then has to contend with the number of times his deity did A.Quote:6 - Your religion is immoral according to my subjective morality ---> Attacking the morality of a religion, no matter how much you disagree with it, is not proof that god doesn't exist and that religion is false.Related to the above, but more accurately stated:
"Your religion is immoral according to -our shared- morality."
"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