(February 13, 2014 at 1:26 pm)Bad Wolf Wrote: Summary of SoCs argument:
'I don't like the burden of proof being on me'
'I can't prove god exists but I have a good feeling and there is some stuff that I can't explain'
'Oh and anything that happened in the bible that is impossible was obviously a metaphor and my interpretation is the right one, i'm a true Christian! And if you don't agree with me, you aren't a true Christian!'
He's a typical Christian, in other words?
"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
