(January 12, 2015 at 12:48 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Edit: I got so excited when I saw Ivy's user name, and then was really disappointed when I realized this thread is over a year old.Sigh, me too. Thought the same thing about another recent thread necro where Kayenneh had posted. At least Cinjin's return is legit!
"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
