(October 8, 2014 at 3:20 pm)Chas Wrote: Maybe angels are a necessary byproduct of some heavenly process; God can no longer make them ex nihilo.If you listen carefully, you can almost hear god muttering "fucking fine tuning is bullshit!!!" under his breath.
"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
