(August 27, 2014 at 1:00 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: I should probably watch the movie first before commenting, but wouldn't it be amazing if the Christers tried as hard to disprove some of their religious bullshit as they do evolution ??I don't get the impression that they're trying very hard 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
