Quote:The article was written by the evangelical author Eric Metaxas, and in it, he argued that scientists have determined that life is so improbable it must have been created.Metaxas uses the fine-tuning argument, where the conditions for life make a creator the only possible option. He was going to write about how god showed up and settled the matter, then he remembered that god only shows up in ancient books written by nomadic goat-fuckers and changed his mind.
"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
