(February 13, 2014 at 9:36 am)Esquilax Wrote: Isn't it interesting, fellows, how many people come into our forum claiming to have irrefutable proof of god, but are completely unwilling to actually provide it in any of their threads?He has to make sure we're ready when the proof comes. He has to carefully 'prime the pump' to make sure there's a good hot load of irrefutable proof that he can spew all over our faces.
"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
