28 Feb '14 01:18>1 edit
Well, my ego doesn't like it. But I tend to learn a lot when it happens.
That's what I tell people who give me evidence against evolution. They act like I think it's a sacrament or something. But really, it's not. If evidence comes out that overturns it, I'm fine with that. In fact, in some ways, it would be very interesting, because we would be learning a new truth, as well as finding out why so many scientists were wrong for so many years.
(Aside...
I'm sure I'm not the only atheist who has noticed that theists assume we are simply a bizarro-version of them. Like we have to have revered leaders, sacraments, holy writ, etc.
...but I digress)
That's what I tell people who give me evidence against evolution. They act like I think it's a sacrament or something. But really, it's not. If evidence comes out that overturns it, I'm fine with that. In fact, in some ways, it would be very interesting, because we would be learning a new truth, as well as finding out why so many scientists were wrong for so many years.
(Aside...
I'm sure I'm not the only atheist who has noticed that theists assume we are simply a bizarro-version of them. Like we have to have revered leaders, sacraments, holy writ, etc.
Bizarro-reverend Dawkins would like to read from the Atheistica now. Let us all turn to the 2nd letter of Christopher Hitchens to the Credulians; chapter 4, verse 13.
Imagine if we were to go to the dying religious and tell them, 'you don't have to live your last few days as a serf, you know. You can renounce your religion and embrace reason.'
Our Father, Charles Darwin, who art 6 feet under, I pray that you let these eminently reasonable people absorb the wisdom of the words they have heard. Lead them not into Gullibility, and deliver them from Jehovah's Witnesses. Amen.
...but I digress)