(May 31, 2015 at 1:38 pm)ronedee Wrote: Try to give better responses than my 5 year old.If you want better responses, you've got to ask better questions, Ron. A simple "Yes" or "No" to an ambiguous question is exactly what I'd expect from a five-year-old. Is that all you want, a yes/no answer? I don't have a yes/no answer to that question. No one should, if they're taking it seriously.
"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