(October 20, 2014 at 2:33 pm)Vivalarevolution Wrote: Now thanks to debating with you guys and asking myself questions I didn't know the answers to, my faith is stronger than everThat is what is known as "the backfire effect." When our most deeply-held convictions are challenged, we grip them even more tightly. The result being that we are more convinced that those beliefs are true than we were before they were challenged.
"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
