(June 8, 2013 at 5:23 pm)Walking Void Wrote: If scientists wrote the bible I may actually reference it more often.
If it was written by scientists 2,000-2,600 years ago it probably wouldn't read much different than it does, except to be even more boring and pedantic in some areas. Science doesn't (or shouldn't) write "bibles." A bible is what you write when you claim to have all of the answers already. Science cannot do that.
"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
