(June 13, 2014 at 3:57 pm)Rhythm Wrote: If "erring on the side of caution" is interchangeable with "not utilizing reason" (as you explained so well)...then aren't you endangering yourself every time you manage to produce a single cogent thought?I'm thinking that he's pretty safe.
"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