(August 18, 2013 at 6:30 pm)discipulus Wrote: And the beautiful thing about it is, is that that might just be how the spaghetti eaters find meaning in their life, by trying to persuade the lasagna eaters to convert.
That depends on the methods used to persuade.
"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
