(August 25, 2013 at 3:26 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote: It's the 5th birthday of atheistforums.org! Until the staff decides to get its shit together, you can post your well wishes for the forum here
I didn't see this topic until now, so it's too late for me to post well wishes here before I post them there. So I'm just going to stand here and pretend that I don't really want to grab some hors d'oeuvres from the buffet.
"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
