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Blind faith and evolution
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  (August 2, 2013 at 2:27 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: Oh, damn, now I feel like an asshole. An apt reaction, after the pic of the overflowing toilet was posted. 
"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 (August 2, 2013 at 7:19 pm)Tonus Wrote:(August 2, 2013 at 2:27 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: Oh, damn, now I feel like an asshole. You lost me on that one. ![[Image: 10314461_875206779161622_3907189760171701548_n.jpg]](https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/t1.0-9/10314461_875206779161622_3907189760171701548_n.jpg)
Asshole... shit... toilet... etc
One just, uh, flows to the next.
"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
Ah. I love that it all comes back to shit. It seems shit has hijacked this thread.
 (August 2, 2013 at 2:27 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: Oh, damn, now I feel like an asshole. Maybe for your birthday.
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.'
  (August 2, 2013 at 8:16 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: It seems shit has hijacked this thread. No, the thread was never hijacked. It started out as shit. When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
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