It can be pointed out that both science and religion are in a constant state of change as we learn more about our world. Scientists are forced to modify --or even occasionally scrap-- theories as we learn more. Theists constantly reinterpret their scriptures as "god provides more understanding" or "reveals more in due time" or whatever explanation is necessary to make it seem as if they were supposed to be wrong all this time.
Maybe that's what scientists are doing wrong-- instead of admitting that their theories were incorrect, they just "reinterpret" them and claim that the theories were always perfect, it was just not the time for us to know.
Maybe that's what scientists are doing wrong-- instead of admitting that their theories were incorrect, they just "reinterpret" them and claim that the theories were always perfect, it was just not the time for us to know.
"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
