(November 7, 2014 at 12:21 am)rexbeccarox Wrote: In a heated thread elsewhere on the forum, a member has intimated that our community is lacking education. I had to laugh. So, I ask: what's your level of education?I graduated high school, so I'm bringing down the curve a bit. But if the person making that claim was Christian, he can easily play both sides of the matter: claim that his opponent is uneducated, but also claim that "the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God (1 Cor. 3:19)."
"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
