(December 23, 2014 at 7:43 am)robvalue Wrote: No one has ever given a reason that they can defend as rational, as far as I'm aware. Doesn't mean they have no reason, people don't always do things for rational reasons.They may do it for practical reasons and consider it a rational approach.
"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