(January 30, 2015 at 3:16 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: I have zero confidence that he does.
Oh, I'm just being facetious. I don't expect him to suddenly come around. The only interest I take in these types is whether they're just having us on or if they're really this deeply-entrenched and don't actually realize what they're doing.
"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