(May 10, 2013 at 12:41 am)Creed of Heresy Wrote: I'll see that bet and raise it to $50 on Polaris. Surely if he speaks in tongues [ergo god is speaking through him], god will grant him other extraordinary powers necessary to beat the poisonous snake.
I agree. I "beat the poisonous snake" all the time and I haven't even gone blind yet.
"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
