(October 4, 2013 at 8:37 pm)Faith No More Wrote: You see what I mean? It's as if the refutations posted are in another language.
Yeah, but it draws a lot of attention because it's such low-hanging fruit. The benefit of a discussion like this is not that the obstinate creationist refuses to have an honest debate; it's that it creates a lasting record of the way he/she dealt with both questions and answers. There are a number of useful links and explanations in this thread now, as well as a perfect example of what happens when you make yourself immune to reason and logic.
"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
