(March 29, 2015 at 7:07 am)Riketto Wrote:So the key is to never "state" anything without claiming it is just "a belief" and then you never have to prove it. That explains your posting history, I guess.(March 28, 2015 at 9:48 pm)Tonus Wrote: Now that's an interesting approach. "If I just say that I believe, I don't have to prove what I say." In a way, that is religion in a nutshell.You guys don't even prove anything after you state something.
"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