(April 18, 2013 at 9:22 am)enrico Wrote: [color=#800000]Excuse me, i am not the one who say that when someone die everything is over.
Correct: you're the one saying that when someone dies, something specific happens. But when you are asked to demonstrate this, you fall back on the argument that we can't know unless we first believe, at which point we no longer need proof. That sounds an awful lot like an admission that you have no proof. But please, tell me again how my ordinary claim somehow needs extraordinary evidence.
"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
