(February 11, 2014 at 8:20 am)jideoni charles Wrote: By way of dispersing such halo of ignorance in respect of my ill-feelings towards all the biblical stories, I have written a book, 'Our Bible Dead?', the overview of which follows shortly as a separate thread.If it's named The Biblinomicon, that would be pretty cool.
"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
