(September 16, 2014 at 1:32 am)snowtracks Wrote: some have a willful disbelief but feign an intellectual problem with the data, others admit the truth.You dodged my response to your earlier mention of those four points, then have the audacity to make a claim like this, then repeat the four points as if they haven't been challenged. I'm just pointing this out, so people can see just how much of a weasel you are.
"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