(February 11, 2014 at 1:29 am)Boris Karloff Wrote: When he couldn't answer my questions he ended the conversation with "I hope God allows your first child to be miscarried."It's notable that he didn't think to say "I hope god gives me the answer to your questions." So many Christians seem to expect such strange behavior from god. A person who survives a terrible accident will say "I survived through the will of god." Would've been nice if he'd nudged you out of the path of that runaway truck, but I guess that would not have been strange or mysterious enough.
"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
