(September 25, 2014 at 5:06 pm)lifesagift Wrote: Oh come on, it's more than a religion, and there are many peaceful surahsAnd Dennis Rader may have been a terrific family man and generous charitable donator... when he wasn't murdering people in cold blood and taunting law enforcement over their inability to capture him.
"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
