(April 10, 2014 at 4:49 am)Tartarus Sauce Wrote: NO! What have you fuckers done to Jacob?!?!?!?!?! Now we've lost one of the good types of theist! They're hard to come by, dammit!But now he's the best type of theist.
"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