(February 5, 2015 at 8:23 pm)Minimalist Wrote: That sounds like experience and training....which beats the fuck out of "miracles."Nah, the people on that plane just prayed harder than the people on all of those other flights that god didn't get to in time. Except for the people who died... bet they wish they'd been praying now!
"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
