(February 9, 2015 at 5:38 pm)TheMessiah Wrote: I'm just asking this, I am truly intrigued by how Atheism is treated in America.In the large cities where the population is more liberal, it's not a big deal, in part because religion isn't that big a deal outside of politics. I think that in the midwest and south the communities are more centered around religion and it's a much bigger deal, but I wouldn't say that religion is that big a deal as much as claiming to be religious is.
"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
