(January 25, 2017 at 8:47 am)Little Rik Wrote: The problem Ton is not whether I understand or not what evidence is.It's only one of your problems, but it IS a problem. For example, first you say this:
Quote:I know very well what evidence is.Then you immediately contradict yourself with your next statement:
Quote:It is rather you that do not understand why evidence is not given to anyone who can't hold such evidence.Figure out what evidence is and what it means for something to be evident, and then we can work from there.
"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