(October 4, 2014 at 9:42 am)Riketto Wrote: I know how busy you are but please try to enlightening me.No problem, Rik. I am progressing in a number of ways. Knowledge and understanding, achieving personal success in a number of areas, identifying a purpose and working to achieve my goals... I am progressing in those areas. None of them require god, just some self-esteem, ambition, determination and a clear yet adaptable plan. Why wait on god when I can get there on my own?
"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