(May 20, 2015 at 9:23 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: Is it too much to hope that our Randy Catholic has given up?
I'd rather he got to the next part of his presentation. I don't get this fascination with building up to an anticlimax (His_Majesty and Rev777 come to mind) but the sooner we get a move on the sooner we reach the part where he dashes our hopes by presenting nothing new and defends it right into the ground.
"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
