(September 16, 2014 at 7:48 pm)snowtracks Wrote: those responses were absolutely brilliant but non-sequiturs.That's just more of the same. You don't want your thinking challenged, you just want to talk at us. The objections to your points do not go away just because you place your hand over the screen.
"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
