(May 6, 2013 at 2:34 am)Ryantology Wrote: But, no, entertain the class with another amazingly stupid logical argument which, I am certain, will invalidate a century and a half of scientific discovery. I wonder how far you will get into this one before you just start making shit up and calling it 'truth'. I could even start a pool. Any takers?
I figured that was the whole premise of the OP.
"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