(September 25, 2014 at 6:10 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Ah...really, I thought that he'd made some comments like "hmn, I wasn't aware of the history of the banana, my bad"I think he did, perhaps at first. Then he realized that he could double down on his original mess and believers would be satisfied with that and the money would keep rolling in. Lucrative gigs don't grow on (banana) trees, after all.
"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
