(February 8, 2015 at 6:54 pm)Lek Wrote: I do have one consolation that you don't have, though, and that is that you'll never be able to say "I told you so" if you're right, but I will.Believe me, we've noticed the pathological need that some theists have for getting the last word in. Here's the thing: I have the "consolation" of living my life on my own terms before it's all over, while you live your life hoping to gain the approval of someone who will grant you a great reward once your life is over. Of course, if you're wrong, you wasted your one shot at living your life on your own terms. But at least you won't have to worry that I'll be there to say "I told you so."
"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
