RE: Argument #2: Evolution Of Species
May 6, 2014 at 9:09 am
(This post was last modified: May 6, 2014 at 9:12 am by Tonus.)
(May 5, 2014 at 7:38 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: Anyways, God shows His creative work to us everyday. He did a great job.The Human Bot Fly larva would like a word with you.
(May 5, 2014 at 8:06 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:This. The argument was shown to be based on an atrocious quote mine. There really is nothing to do at this point but to mock the guy.(May 5, 2014 at 8:04 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: You guys are obviously making sport of me instead of addressing my argument.Wrong. You made no argument. You made a *claim*, backed by (woefully outdated) opinion. ...and even worse, you dishonestly quote mined the author.
"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