(September 12, 2014 at 5:23 am)sswhateverlove Wrote: With what has been observed in quantum physics and epigentics regarding the potential of things in the environment to influence results, it seems like it would be negligent to rule out "dark matter" and "The Force" as possible variables."A force." Not "The Force." You seem strangely hung up on this need to give a name and identity (and even additional properties!) to something that is still not fully understood. Are you aware that you are doing this?
"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
