(December 9, 2013 at 7:09 pm)Beccs Wrote: Though it did shoot down my comparison rather well.
Not necessarily. The moth is trusting the light to guide it to its destination safely, but it cannot differentiate between a useful marker and a candle flame. In the end, its ignorance burns it. Not knowing that what you're following is not what you believe it to be? Hmmm...
"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