(August 16, 2014 at 1:00 pm)theophilus Wrote: Everyone is wrong about many things. There are some things you can be wrong about and it doesn't make any real difference. There are some things you must be right about or the consequences will be disastrous.Ever notice how Christians can make god look like a very nasty fellow without realizing it?
"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
