(October 21, 2014 at 10:16 pm)Christian Wrote: My pastor is a very intelligent person and has recommended that I come here often to pass the message of Jesus Christ as the end times may be near.No need, buddy. Professor already did that schtick last month. Surely Jesus would allow a cooling-off period before he threatens to come again?
"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
