(February 2, 2015 at 7:29 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: I hate to break the news to you, but observation is empirical evidence. Go back and look at the definition you yourself linked.If I am not mistaken, he used that definition to show that his personal experience served as empirical evidence because he observed the events he described. So we'll probably have to define "observation" now.
"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