(May 5, 2013 at 2:23 am)homocidlefreak Wrote: I get the feeling no one understands my question. It seems that people are over complicating a very easy question.
I think that it's because we each bring some baggage to that question. I figure that most people won't approach the question as a pure hypothetical with no strings attached, since experience will have shown them that such seemingly simple questions tend to have strings attached.
"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
