(March 24, 2015 at 3:23 am)robvalue Wrote: I had mixed feelings, but he was definitely one of the better theists.He was always pretty coy about his beliefs, and I don't think he ever planned to put them out here to be scrutinized. But he was pretty sociable outside of the religious discussion, which is why so many of us were sad to see him banned IMO.
I think towards the end he could no longer stand how weak his own arguments were and started lashing out and playing the martyr card.
So a toast to our long-lost h0bbit. And love and inappropriate hugs for Losty.
"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
