(September 26, 2013 at 7:51 pm)Rationalman Wrote: Please explain what the science versus religion fallacy is, I have never heard of it before.
He doesn't seem to have any idea what he is talking about, and I suspect he's just flinging poo at the wall in the hopes that some of it sticks. We seem to be in a bit of a lull, the theist arguments this past few days have generally indicated a lack of effort. It's painful to read through.
"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