(July 28, 2014 at 12:55 am)Drich Wrote: Not trying to stir the pot for the sake of doing it, but I honestly when debating these fringe Christians, began to wonder if some of you were members of that site. It's like they found something they wanted to believe and then filled in the gaps with 'evidence.' If they could not win me with their 'evidence' the name calling started.That's just confirmation bias-- we tend to seek out and more readily accept information that supports what we already believe, and we are likely to avoid or more readily reject information that contradicts what we believe. And pretty much by definition, it means that we're pretty sure it's something that everyone else but we are afflicted with.
Welcome back, Drich. Hope all is well.
"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
