(February 1, 2015 at 10:54 pm)Riketto Wrote: The question related instead to what fact are you talking about.I told you which fact I was talking about.
Riketto Wrote:I must nominated you for the next Nobel prize for discovering how the intellect works.I didn't discover it. I just happened to tell you. Don't waste the opportunity to learn something.
"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