(January 29, 2015 at 9:02 am)Drich Wrote: You've lost your right to introduce any more new material into this conversation till you provide an accurate synopsis of my position.Once again, I am under no obligation to meet your demands, arbitrary or otherwise. Nor do I need to figure out the moving target that you want to describe as your position. I don't have to introduce any new material, even if you somehow had the power to revoke that 'right'; the point I have made remains a valid point regardless of your dismissals. The reference to other issues just shows that even if you want to shrug off the problems of scale, the plausibility of the event remains pretty much zero.
"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
