(September 11, 2014 at 2:36 pm)TaraJo Wrote: *Looks around*It's the same discussion over and over. Ricky makes a crazy post, someone tries to talk sense to him, and Ricky responds with a crazy post. Thankfully he keeps the insanity to one or two very long threads, which is probably why he's lasted this long.
Wow. This is a really long thread. Anyone want to clue me in on what's been going on? Or does nobody else seem to understand it, either?
"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
