You know, if we really were created in god's image, that could explain the massive lag time. God created earth and got the ball rolling, then he goes off to host a celestial kegger or something, and billions of years later he pushes some hooker to the floor and shouts "OMFM! I forgot all about earth!" He returns and finds that the planet is evolving nicely and self-aware humans are starting to emerge in Africa, so he decides he'll just make this little garden in the mid-east and if things work out, he'll just extend it and invite those cute little hairless apes to join in the fun.
...well shit, it didn't work out. Time for another kegger!
...well shit, it didn't work out. Time for another kegger!
"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
