(October 6, 2013 at 7:14 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Every time I run across the term 'conceivably possible' is an otherwise well constructed argument, I can't help but feel that the arguer is desperately trying to find a justification - any justification - to hold onto some cherished notion that the real world continually grinds into a fine powder.When you think about it, "conceivably possible" is the fundamental basis for religion.
"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
