(August 2, 2013 at 4:29 pm)ITChick Wrote: This happens to me fairly often. I'm having a fairly civilised conversation with a Christian and the aggressive atheist comes along: "F*#$€ you you f*^%#'ng Christian. Your god is a jerk and you are an idiot"
At this point the Christian would either dissapear or the two of them would have a fight.
What do I do when this happens? For some reason I feel bad telling the atheist off (we are on the same team after all)
I'm not on the same team with someone who acts that way.
"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
