(September 26, 2013 at 11:02 pm)Vincenzo "Vinny" G. Wrote:(September 26, 2013 at 11:01 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: Let's start with whatever evidence convinced you that there is a god. That's the evidence that will be examined by those you are trying to convince.No, let's not.
I think that all of Vinny's posts come down to this.
"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
