RE: Evolution Facts
August 12, 2014 at 1:34 pm
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2014 at 1:34 pm by Tonus.)
(July 22, 2014 at 10:58 pm)alexwenzel Wrote: I have overwhelming amounts of proof for myself, and don't have to prove it to you.Everyone does. It's when you try to prove it to others that you discover whether your self-proof is sufficient or if it's lacking. Why bother taking part in a discussion if your only contribution is to remind us that you don't want to step outside of your bubble?
"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