(December 20, 2014 at 4:35 pm)professor Wrote: OK Brucer, once you get done removing all your considered non-real items, you may as well join Whaterverist and Min or the Muslims for that matter, because what you have left is useless.You're... admonishing him for sticking to what is real?
"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