(September 18, 2014 at 7:58 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: 1. Are you absolutely sure there is no God?Anyone else notice that the first nine questions are variations on "just because he isn't there, doesn't mean he isn't there"? Won't god have mercy on these guys and just show the fuck up already?
"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
