(May 21, 2014 at 5:05 am)paulpablo Wrote: They do have a right to exist.Do they? Who grants this right, and what do they do to people who violate the right of the unborn to exist? A right granted to a person implies an obligation upon another. If we are granting rights to a person before he or she becomes a person, then we are agreeing that mothers are obliged to carry to term in order to respect that right.
"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
