(January 9, 2015 at 8:13 pm)Lek Wrote: Well, it must very believable because there sure have been a lot of people who believed it.But apparently they believed it without giving it much thought, since...
(January 9, 2015 at 8:29 pm)Lek Wrote: If you think about it too much, it will make you crazy. It's impossible to grasp the concept intellectually, as is a God or anything that has always existed....which implies that the only honest Christian is an insane Christian.
"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