(June 12, 2014 at 9:44 am)Chuck Wrote: It must be a boat made from chemically impregnated, fire resistant wood as advertised by the born again chemical industry.A fitting metaphor, to ask us to cram into a boat made of asbestos lest we suffer and die.
"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