(June 6, 2013 at 8:12 pm)Faith No More Wrote: How does a comment like that get taken out of context?
It's a PR-type of move. I don't know why people use it, it seems as if apologizing for saying something stupid would be better received than some kind of bizarre forest-for-the-trees defense.
"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
