(May 22, 2013 at 7:57 pm)Rayaan Wrote: Hopefully this thread will include more than just ad hominems and straw mans.
That's part of the fun, isn't it? To see just how many fallacies we slip into the thread proper!
So when did you stop beating your wife, Ray? *raises eyebrow*
"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