(July 16, 2014 at 10:59 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote:Tongue in check? Is that like putting your money where your mouth is?(July 16, 2014 at 10:22 am)whateverist Wrote: There it is. Holier than Thou. That's what makes our xtians so quaint and charming.I.suppose the concept of tongue in check escapes him
"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