RE: Death Threats After Supporting Evolution
September 7, 2012 at 4:12 pm
(This post was last modified: September 7, 2012 at 4:13 pm by Cyberman.)
(September 7, 2012 at 7:16 am)Zen Badger Wrote:(August 30, 2012 at 1:16 pm)CliveStaples Wrote: Science relies on certain assumptions (or axioms). Articles of faith are essentially assumptions.
You apparently don't understand how science actually works do you...
It might start with assumptions but then experiments to see if those assumptions hold true.
Whereas religion will start with assumptions and hold unto them regardless of what the evidence might say.
I wanted to write out a thousand word response but thought "sod it - here's a picture instead":
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'