RE: What's the best way to shut up a theist?
April 8, 2014 at 9:35 am
(This post was last modified: April 8, 2014 at 10:37 am by Tonus.)
(April 4, 2014 at 4:34 am)Zid Wrote: Why should I give her the satisfaction of letting her think she won. I'm not giving up I'm just frustrated.Sounds like she's winning, then.
"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