(April 21, 2013 at 1:05 pm)whateverist Wrote: So the emotion of hate and intellectual dishonesty (revealed by its containing conclusions which differ from my own) thoroughly justify aggression. What would it take to justify tolerance of a differing opinion in matters where conclusive evidence is lacking?
I'm not sure I understand how my comment would lead anyone to the above conclusion. Or at least, my comment in its entirety.
"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
