(June 12, 2013 at 10:12 pm)BettyG Wrote:(June 12, 2013 at 12:43 pm)Tonus Wrote: I get the impression that you use the word "physical" as a substitute for "reality" and "metaphysical" as a substitute for "fantasy." It makes one seem as plausible as the other when you put it that way, but it doesn't change that you're comparing reality to fantasy.metaphysical - of or relating to the transcendent or to a reality beyond what is perceptible to the senses.
That just reinforces my impression. How do we define that which we cannot even perceive?
"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
