(July 16, 2014 at 5:28 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: It would be nice to have a forum with locked threads that listed all of the primary contentions and counterpoints of major issues such as this one though I'm sure it would be a tedious process to compile something like that and make it concise, easy to locate, and exhaustive--as many subjects such as this tend to require.I think DP makes this suggestion every now and then and regrets it by page 2.
"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