(November 26, 2014 at 10:03 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: What is this, the sixth congressional investigation that's come up dry?The seventh, according to the article you linked. And there is an eighth one ongoing, that was appointed in May. The one that just finished looks to have cleared the administration, though. In order for the eighth one to generate any controversy, it would need to directly contradict at least that one.
"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
