(December 19, 2014 at 11:41 pm)Brucer Wrote: He was a sage with a remarkable message. A message so simple that hardly anyone understood it. In fact, hardly anyone still really knows much about what his message actually was.There is certainly something remarkable about a message that no one can understand, but not in a good way.
"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
