(June 23, 2014 at 6:01 am)Knowledge of God Wrote: What can I say, you even justify yourself in your lack of belief?There are a great many things that each of us lack belief in. Are you saying that you don't justify your lack of belief in Santa Claus, or Shiva, or Xenu?
"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
