(October 4, 2013 at 3:20 pm)max-greece Wrote: The important thing, to me, is that abiogenesis always appeared to be insoluble.
So did flight, at one point in time. I'm not ragging on you; my guess is that most people felt the same way. There were those who felt differently, but with each failure the naysayers felt more and more sure that it couldn't be done. But someone finally did. And fewer than 65 years later, men walked on the moon for the first time. And some four decades after that, we have people accusing us of "having faith in science instead of god."
Not everyone is interested in moving forward, I guess.
"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
