RE: Why "mysterious ways" don't matter.
July 16, 2014 at 5:41 am
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2014 at 5:41 am by Tonus.)
(July 16, 2014 at 1:55 am)Esquilax Wrote: Oh, and just for fun: how did you derive those calculations of probability, anyway?I was wondering if someone would ask that. Most of those "improbability odds" figures are pulled out of thin air. I really would like to see an explanation of how they determine the probability of something as vague as "a single cell."
"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
