(March 18, 2014 at 12:17 pm)Deidre32 Wrote: He sounds like he accepts it and accepts Genesis.You can accept Genesis and still find ways to fit evolution in. After all, it tells us that god created a single couple from which all mankind is descended, which means that the diverse human races evolved from a single pair. This can be applied to the other organisms described and then stretched to cover the stuff that wasn't known at the time. The problem is that it doesn't read like evolution, but there is enough ambiguity to fit it in.
"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
