(October 16, 2014 at 12:04 pm)professor Wrote: I suppose the question would be how many cultures DIDN'T have evil spirits?None of them had evil spirits. But a lot of them thought that evil spirits were to blame for everything from a mild cough to earthquakes. Or do you still think that the earth is flat and covered by a dome upon which god rests his feet?
"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
