(February 4, 2015 at 12:26 pm)Riketto Wrote: Sorry mate but the cars that drive by themselves are programmed by someone so the I is still in charge.Great! So you recognize that your analogy does not apply? Maybe we're getting somewhere.
Matter doesn't have enough consciousness to do anything by itself.
Riketto Wrote:Disappointed again?I keep my expectations within reason, rik. But yeah, kinda.
"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