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Myths and misconceptions about evolution - Alex Gendler
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Myths and misconceptions about evolution - Alex Gendler
July 8, 2013 at 11:45 am (This post was last modified: July 8, 2013 at 11:46 am by Gooders1002.)



If this does not clear up your understanding of evolution nothing will.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
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Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
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RE: Myths and misconceptions about evolution - Alex Gendler
July 8, 2013 at 11:52 am
You can't reason with creatards. They will still insist that they want to see a crocoduck.
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RE: Myths and misconceptions about evolution - Alex Gendler
July 8, 2013 at 11:59 am
Some don't understand. Some don't want to understand.
"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
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