(May 1, 2014 at 5:59 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: To me this is not a waste of time. You appear to feel differently.So do I! I just don't lament over it. We're human, we waste time and we tilt at windmills, be they intransigent atheists or preachy theists. Sure, there are better ways to waste my time, but there are only so many episodes of Archer on Netflix, and sometimes we just have to find a way to get by.
"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
