(December 27, 2014 at 8:23 pm)Creed of Heresy Wrote: Think I'm glad to be back. I say that now, of course, but the first creationist to rear his head, just watch me fly into full-force fury instantly.It might be just what you need to relieve some stress.
Welcome back, CoH.
And hi there, Kichi!
"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