snowtracks Wrote:but of course, there isn’t any paleontology evidence (the claim of ‘future discovery’ only has a limited shelf-life {please not again, that is so lame}).This is awesome. You try to cover for your ignorance by making it seem as if you're trying to head off a "gaps" argument (which should set off anyone's hypocrite meter immediately) and it takes less than an hour for someone to produce the evidence you thought didn't exist. Too bad you didn't warn us against using 'past discovery.'
"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