(July 31, 2014 at 1:41 pm)SteveII Wrote: Where is your proof that no one wrote anything down? Guess what, most paper documents don't survive.I get the impression that pen and paper weren't a common sight in those times. The idea that people were taking notes and somehow these notes got into the hands of a single individual who used them to write a viable second-hand account years (possibly decades) later seems far-fetched. I mean, geez... a man breathes his last breath and suddenly the skies go dark, an earthquake strikes, the curtain in the temple is rent in two, and great men of old rise from their tombs and visit the city, and the best anyone can muster are notes???
"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
