(January 21, 2015 at 10:35 pm)professor Wrote: (yea, I know- "Logical" and me are, to you guys, mutually exclusive)I wouldn't say mutually exclusive. You were willing to eat your hat when your previous prediction fell flat. I'd say that you and logic have an on again, off again relationship. I figure that next September/December you'll be on speaking terms again.
"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