(January 30, 2015 at 8:20 pm)Stimbo Wrote: In fairness, apparently Byrne always ends his show by asking his guests that question. He just chose the wrong battle this time.
His ass is going to be reminding him of that for quite some time, after how thoroughly it got kicked this time.
"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
