(August 23, 2014 at 6:46 am)Stimbo Wrote: Regardless, why bother with a deadline at all? It's not as if "God" was warning of some imminent disaster beyond its control. "God" supposedly was pulling all the strings the whole time and could just as easily have waited until the ark project was completed and stocked before wiping out all life.It's a good thing that he was god, otherwise he might have wrongly estimated how long it would take a group of 400-500 year-olds to build the world's biggest wooden boat, and load tens of thousands of animals onto 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
