(December 31, 2014 at 2:13 pm)Lambert Wrote: Ok fair enough, but that means they just do not understand any of it,Or it was written and/or compiled so that you wound up with a book so open to interpretation as to be useless for actually determining any sort of truth, but useful for con men with good imaginations and an audience eager to be deceived.
"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