(February 8, 2015 at 8:15 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Of course, you know that the IQ of half the population is below 100, right?No amount of IQ points will help against deeply-ingrained presuppositions and emotional arguments. I think that what has worked most effectively against religion is both time and the steady march of scientific progress. We should have reasoned gods away centuries ago, but with so many people unwilling to apply it, the best thing to do is let science and knowledge and the constant stream of unfulfilled threats chip away at it.
"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
