(February 15, 2014 at 8:10 pm)Cal Wrote: If you wish to converse further on this subject, or others, then do PM me. I realise by stating that I am a Christian, I am open to all sorts of slander or whatever. I only hope that we can have some mature and decent discussion. There are already too many theists and atheists engaged in immature and unreasonable petty arguments."I don't want to judge anybody, except to point out that I'm better than 'too many' of the immature theists and atheists on this board."
"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
