(November 24, 2014 at 7:59 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Don't all god propositions begin and end with magic?Most of them begin with "I can demonstrate this using science" and quickly end up with "magic." The staggering consequences of this seem to evade them, for some reason.
"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
