(October 13, 2013 at 12:19 pm)snowtracks Wrote: by the way, the 'God the gap' responds only has a limited shelf life.
Yes, it stops being effective as soon as you stop using the argument that "we don't know, therefore god." Since most of Grace's arguments are just another version of that argument, you'll keep hearing the obvious response to it.
"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