(March 17, 2013 at 5:33 am)Dawud Wrote: I expect you won't accept that a society can be so different - but that is what the evidence shows: a loving relationship of mutual respect that fit perfectly well.
Was this in response to Myelis' post? If so, are you saying that it was common in ancient times for men to select wives from among the very young, and to consummate those marriages with girls as young as nine? Or at least, that it was not unusual for them to do so?
"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
