(December 9, 2014 at 9:29 am)Riketto Wrote:Discussing the topic is not the same as providing evidence.(December 8, 2014 at 1:03 pm)Surgenator Wrote: You still have to provide evidence that there exist something other than the physical world.In previous posts i discuss this topic time and time again.
And yes, I'm aware that your reply to that is to explain that you cannot possibly produce evidence of what you are discussing, as if that somehow bolsters your claims instead of undermining them.
"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