(February 5, 2015 at 9:51 pm)Napoléon Wrote: And how wrong they were.I think that if we assigned a points system, they would have so many negative points for their understanding of the cosmos that they would need for everything else they wrote to be correct just to finish slightly in the negative.
I wonder what else they were wrong about.
Based on the rest of the first book, I don't like their chances.
"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
