(March 22, 2013 at 10:08 pm)jap23 Wrote: If I told you: "guess what! a woman sat on seven hills last night, Oh, and the woman is a city"- would you think I'd expect you to take it literally?
An aside: every time you use that example, I imagine that you're making a "yo mamma so fat" joke. It makes me giggle.
Sorry; back to your discussion now.
"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
