(April 27, 2013 at 2:38 pm)Tex Wrote: If the claim were real, we'd probably would never trust each other and starve to death. All husbands would have to get blood tests on their children so that they may have physical evidence to say "this is my child". All food would need to be tested for poison because you don't have any physical evidence that it's poison-free. Most of the time, we just go by trust. Physical evidence is there to back up the trust, but the large majority of the time the physical evidence doesn't even matter. Think of the Flat Earth Society. You think they would care what evidence was brought to them? They have no trust in us, so they do not trust our evidence. The evidence is moot.
I would assume that the bolded part is Mouse's point.
"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
