(May 2, 2013 at 4:53 pm)Luminox Wrote: Can you spot the fallacies?
Anytime I see this argument, the main thought that comes to mind is that it appears as if the argument being put forth by theists is "sure, theists have raped and slaughtered millions of people, but non-theists have done just a bit worse overall." You can almost imagine them wiping their foreheads and sighing with relief.
"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
