(June 29, 2014 at 1:30 am)ronedee Wrote:Some variation of "you'll learn the truth, eventually" has been part of the theist's toolbox for as long as there have been theists, is my guess. It sounds suspiciously like "I'll prove it to you... some other time."(June 29, 2014 at 1:27 am)Irrational Wrote: I see him in nothing because I don't assume by default a being which I have yet to see any evidence for."yet"
"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
