(June 23, 2015 at 3:37 pm)Rhythm Wrote: (I'm probably never going to see eye to eye with you on this...
I both understand and respect that. I don't have the emotional investment that you have in it, nor is it my desire to wind you up for no other reason than to disagree. If you were enrico then I'd have a field day with it, but being an asshole for its own sake is so... gauche.
"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