(November 6, 2013 at 8:08 am)Optimistic Mysanthrope Wrote: Right. Sorry if this has already been explained, but what the hell is intuitional science???
If it could be defined, it could be properly analyzed. I strongly suspect that this would not be in enrico's interests. Therefore, "intuitional science" can be defined as "it's exactly what it sounds like." And yes, that welcome mat does extend far enough beyond the door that someone on the other side could grasp it and tug it quite easily.
"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
