(September 19, 2014 at 8:03 pm)professor Wrote: What I am saying is my understanding, knowledge and confidence on who God is, and His whole plan is not contingent on my being right on that date.Come on, man. You're not supposed to backpedal until after the date arrives and nothing happens!
"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