An Afterlife is NO threat to an Atheist viewpoint :)

You've been told that "evolution is just a theory", a guess, a hunch, and not a fact, not proven. You've been misled. Keep reading, and in less than two minutes from now you'll know that you've been misinformed. I dont need to change peoples minds about evolution, anymore than I need to help them take a piss, if they cant do it for themselves, thats part of the problem. The Theory of Evolution is a theory, but guess what? When scientists use the word theory, it has a different meaning to normal everyday use. That's right, it all comes down to the multiple meanings of the word theory. In everyday use, theory means a guess or a hunch, something that maybe needs proof. In science, a theory is not a guess, not a hunch. It's a well-substantiated, well-supported, well-documented explanation for our observations. It ties together all the facts about something, providing an explanation that fits all the observations and can be used to make predictions. In science, theory is the ultimate goal, the explanation. It's as close to proven as anything in science can be. Some people think that in science, you have a theory, and once it's proven, it becomes a law. That's not how it works. In science, we collect facts, or observations, we use laws to describe them, and a theory to explain them. You don't promote a theory to a law by proving it. A theory never becomes a law. This bears repeating. A theory never becomes a law. In fact, if there was a hierarchy of science, theories would be higher than laws. There is nothing higher, or better, than a theory. Laws describe things, theories explain them. An example will help you to understand this. There's a law of gravity, which is the description of gravity. It basically says that if you let go of something it'll fall. It doesn't say why. Then there's the theory of gravity, which is an attempt to explain why. Actually, Newton's Theory of Gravity did a pretty good job, but Einstein's Theory of Relativity does a better job of explaining it. These explanations are called theories, and will always be theories. They can't be changed into laws, because laws are different things. Laws describe, and theories explain. Just because it's called a theory of gravity, doesn't mean that it's just a guess. It's been tested. All our observations are supported by it, as well as its predictions that we've tested. Also, gravity is real! You can observe it for yourself. Just because it's real doesn't mean that the explanation is a law. The explanation, in scientific terms, is called a theory. Evolution is the same. There's the fact of evolution. Cumulative genetic change over generations, happens, just like gravity does. Google it. The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection is our best explanation for the fact of evolution. It has been tested and scrutinised for over 150 years, and is supported by all the relevant observations. Next time someone tries to tell you that evolution is just a theory, as a way of dismissing it, as if it's just something someone guessed at, remember that they're using the non-scientific meaning of the word. If that person is a teacher, or minister, or some other figure of authority, they should know better. In fact, they probably do, and are trying to mislead you. Evolution is not just a theory, it's happily a theory! Allowing the poison of religious text to atrophy intuition, intellect and instinct, is the ball and chain mankind drags on its way to a higher standard :) Mankinds most brilliant minded individuals, all see the world through the eyes of cumulative evolution over billions of years. Studies have been done that show there is a clear link, a very clear link between education and Non belief. The higher the education level, the less religious :) Science is a very stringent process, it is precise, and it can be tested over and over again. Of course science is going to discover things which disprove old ideas. How is that somehow a bad thing? When are you considered a failure, anywhere else in life, for learning new information and using it to save peoples lives :) The point is, the ridiculous ignorance of denying scientific proof as no big deal, is paramount to claiming jerry sandusky would make a great role model for 10 yr old boys :) Higgs Boson other dimensions-- http://www.youtube.com... Science tells me other dimensions are just waiting to be discovered, just like the Higgs Boson was waiting to be discovered when suggested in 1964 by Peter Higgs :) So as a human on the earth, we have a lot of things to learn. We have come a long way, I mean a really long way when you look at the big picture. Darwins Finches started the greatest debate mankind would ever face. However it was that science learned there is no debate at all, cumulative evolution by natural selection is true. The theory of evolution and theory of gravity are both proven theories holding to the stringent prerequisites to be true :) So every human has a choice. They can grow their conciousness and awareness of reality, take responsibility for all the good you do in your life because youre nice not because of a god, and be accountable when youre wrong, without blaming the devil. So every human has another choice to make. Science or religion? Who is more likely to be right. Since nobody can prove or disprove a god, we can only base things on probability. When you understand science and can see the beautiful picture evolution paints and when you appreciate the precious value of life, when you really "get it", You will be able to feel love for the universe, you will feel hope, that science will advance to help our lives and faith in ourselves and mankind as a whole :) So who is more right, science or religion? One tells us how to save lives, fight disease, grow food, build anything and creating anything, and everything always has science behind it somewhere, everything involves math and science, its as unavoidable as gravity and evolution being equally true no matter "how you feel", or how "you see the world",you cannot control nature thru beliefs, thats what makes people considered delusional :) Science is telling me that other dimensions are within reach, and science is a helluva lot more probable to be right, than a holy binky that claims the reason for everything in the world is admittingly jealous and can convict you of thought crime, that science considers a statistical improbability, like a set of dinner plates floating in the andromeda galaxy, a statistical improbability. So if an atheist, for lack of a beter word, or no word at all, is someone who does not believe the reason for everything is a petty bully, how does anafter life of our conciousness threaten our view when science says other dimensions are highly probable, unlike the reason for everything throwing telper tantrum floods, which is a statistical improbability :) So since science is more reliable than religion, an afterlife is No threat to an atheist viewpoint. Now some more big kids stuff to wrap it up :) STUDS 7:58--"Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty " a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show,"--Bertrand Russell, He couldnt be more right :) DevientGenie 2:7--For those who are smarty pants, the Genie is not deviant, the second 'e' is testament to that fact. He is merely splashing a glass of ice water on the world :) UNIVERSE 6:3--GJ 581, or Gliese 581, is a low-mass M dwarf star, the most common type of star in the Galaxy. Earlier studies have shown that it hosts at least four planets, including one that resides in the 'Goldilocks Zone' -- the distance from the central sun where liquid surface water could exist. Earth is in the Goldilocks Zone :)