(October 21, 2014 at 1:29 pm)polar bear Wrote: This community seems to be very positive and open to people. I just wonder why other people find the need to be such a-holes when it comes to how I answer my questions?Probably just a trigger, something that sets them off. Or they're just assholes most/all of the time, which usually has little or nothing to do with religious belief. Realize that as you try to answer those questions, some people will prove useful, and some will not. Put the latter out of your mind and you'll be happier, IMO.
"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
