(March 15, 2014 at 8:32 pm)professor Wrote: Yes Captain. I really believe it.Somehow I get the feeling that for four decades it's been 'right around the corner' or 'very near' or something similar. But this time it's different!
Some of us (and myself) have been watching for it for 4 decades.
"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