(May 31, 2015 at 10:18 am)learncritic Wrote: I understand that Atheism is a rejection of existence of God, or more broadly speaking (and correct me if I am wrong) rejection of all metaphysical realities. For example, Afterlife, Angels, Heaven/Hell, Satan, etc.I don't believe in any of those, so I suppose you can say that I "reject" them. But it's no different than the way you "reject the existence of" every other mythical (or "metaphysical") creature, being, or plane of existence. If faced with clear proof of any of it, I'm willing to agree that such-and-such being, creature, or place exists. But stories that have been handed down over the centuries with nothing but urban legends and never-corroborated events as support just aren't convincing.
I'll stop rejecting god when he stops bringing such weak moves to the basket. Same for the afterlife, angels, satan, etc.
"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
