Every time I decide to prove that god doesn't exist, the invisible leprechaun on my shoulder glares at me. I'm not sure what it is he wants, but he scares the shit out of me. So I just close the thread and wait for my heart to stop racing.
Umm... I don't think he liked this post. AT ALL.
Umm... I don't think he liked this post. AT ALL.
"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
