(March 20, 2014 at 11:34 pm)Zid Wrote: I have one question what's the best way of shut up a theist,Duct tape works. Although what you are describing can best be dealt with by ignoring her. It solves the problem and also helps you develop both a slightly thicker skin and some self-discipline, both of which will help you in other areas in your life.
"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
