(September 12, 2014 at 8:42 am)fr0d0 Wrote: The problem is that new people aren't yet indoctrinated into forum etiquette.I lurked for one or two months before I signed up. It's good to know what you're getting into before you ring the doorbell (says the ex-JW).
"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
