(August 9, 2014 at 7:01 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: I'm sure the ASK method works really well on those people that want to believe in something like a god or gods.Indeed, Drich's description sounds to me like "keep at it until you convince yourself that you've found god."
"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
