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Originally Posted by photon
True, though I'll bring up the quote that I already posted:
“In science ‘fact’ can only mean ‘confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent’"
Evolution is easily falsified. Scientists have been trying for 150 years.
People trust gravity to always work. I'm not going to jump off a building on the idea that the theory of gravity is fallible. Same thing with evolution, yes it's a theory, but at this stage to not accept it without contrary evidence is silly.
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I don't think gravity is a good comparable, do you? Gravity has held up to tests, scientific and not, a bazillion times every day.
Evolution is not so easily tested and it largely depends on the accuracy of other science, like genetics. Additionally, there is undoubtedly a large amount of undiscovered and untested evidence out there still.
It's a much more difficult concept for a person to get their head around than is gravity or the spherical shape of our planet, things that can bee seen. Thor is reconciling this simply be proclaiming folks stupid.
I don't think it's fair and definitely not very noble. It almost certainly won't help him further his cause and it's the exact reason why I despise organized religion. Self-righteousness is not a virtue, and you can define my term the correct way (religion, morality) or my newly made up way (proclaimation of ultimate correctness).