New Member - Science Teacher from Perth

[AustralAlien]

Hello Hello!

[Darwinsbulldog]

Originally Posted by Centauri

Howdy, TGH. I was in Perth for the first time last December - loved it!

Enjoy the forums

Nice place to visit, but you don't want to live here!

[Centauri]

Originally Posted by Darwinsbulldog

Nice place to visit, but you don't want to live here!

*awaits the response of the Perth Impromptu Squad*

[EvilDRMike]

You just missed one. Head over to meetup.com and join Perth atheists. It's for atheists that live in Perth. I missed it due to being sick so a big bummer for me missing David's sendoff.

EDM

[DanDare]

Hey heist, I likes techers because befor I wen to school I couldn't not spell computa programma and now I are one!

[Praxis]

Howdy Heist (I take my alliteration where I can find it!).

Welcome. Hope you enjoy the forums

[The GreAt Heist]

Originally Posted by Darwinsbulldog

Hello TGH, u don't believe in that evolution rubbish do you?

Haha, Oh yeah... Ofcourse not :P ... It's just a 'theory' ... Like gravity

[Centauri]

Originally Posted by The GreAt Heist

Haha, Oh yeah... Ofcourse not :P ... It's just a 'theory' ... Like gravity

Apparently the Heliocentric Theory is "just a theory" as well.....

[Darwinsbulldog]

Originally Posted by The GreAt Heist

Haha, Oh yeah... Ofcourse not :P ... It's just a 'theory' ... Like gravity

I stopped believing in gravity when I put on a bit of weight!

[Darwinsbulldog]

Originally Posted by The GreAt Heist

Haha, Oh yeah... Ofcourse not :P ... It's just a 'theory' ... Like gravity

Another thought. Creationists are perfectly correct. Evolution IS only a theory.[1] Methodological naturalism DEMANDS that we do not conflate model/theory [the intellectual map] with reality or nature [ the "terrain"]. So naive realism is indeed intellectually very unsound. Their is no epistomologically rigourous way to absolutely confirm any fact or theory, to know how close we are to reality.
But when creationists insist on this [or indeed any theist who makes a "god is real" claim] kicks an "own goal", because religion is steeped in naive reality and metaphysics.

1. Evolutionary theory is of course a cluster of many individual theories, hence evolutionary theory is used in the plural sense. And evolution is an empirical fact.