(October 11, 2013 at 8:49 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: For fucks sake it just is you don't need to assert that it is you just look at it. You don't have to learn much science to know this.
You don't have to learn any science to "just look at" something and make up a reason why it's there. The scientific method is what helped us move past that stage, where we just guessed at why or how. We have long since moved beyond the habit of either asserting or "just looking." And what we found was not god.
"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
