RE: William Lane Craig continues to desperately defend the indefensible.
February 22, 2015 at 8:39 am
(February 22, 2015 at 1:40 am)Esquilax Wrote: Now, I've shown you mine, you show me yours: what is the mechanism that halts mutations, so that they don't accumulate to the point that we'd need to reclassify an organism?Based on his previous comments, I'm going to go with "I don't believe it is possible" as the mechanism.
"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
