(April 6, 2013 at 9:25 pm)Alter2Ego Wrote: (Source: LIFE--How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or by Creation? Pages 10-11)
The problem with the Watchtower Society book about creation is that it is rife with dishonest misquotes. Some of them are breathtaking in the extent to which they are pulled out of context in order to make them appear to support the opposite of what they actually mean.
"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
-Stephen Jay Gould