It seems to me that the question is asked out of frustration over the lack of any convincing evidence. Which is the religion with the most followers, Christianity? And it has managed to provide enough evidence to convince about 40% of the population of the planet, if we're being charitable?
Maybe they're asking the wrong question. Maybe the right question is "how could you be convinced by such meager, shoddy evidence?"
Maybe they're asking the wrong question. Maybe the right question is "how could you be convinced by such meager, shoddy evidence?"
"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
