(June 24, 2014 at 11:55 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: I’ve seen a couple of arguments on this site (and others) where I believe one side is absolutely disinterested in addressing logic or evidence, and I wonder why people keep engaging in that discussion. Is it just not worth it sometimes?It's not worth it a lot of the time. Some people just can't drop an argument or have to get the last word in. Once I think that the various sides in a discussion have made their case and it seems that we're starting to go in circles, I just shrug my shoulders and let it go. There was a time when I needed to get the last word, but growing up took care of that a fair number of years ago.
"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
