From: "John Beamish" 

Tim Boyer's message in this thread with the quote from Stephen J. Gould is
closer to my thoughts.  If there is a theory which better fits the facts
and is supported by empirical evidence with hypotheses and real world tests
which fully support those hypotheses then I'm sure it will be widely
accepted.

That isn't, by the way, meant to impugne faith.  There is a place for faith
and there is a place for science and scientific theories.  The former is
found in churches (where they don't teach science) and the latter are found
in schools where they shouldn't be teaching faith).

On Sat, 05 May 2007 13:09:59 -0400, Robert Comer
 wrote:

>> In short, dismissing something called a Theory simply because it is
>> *called* a theory is intellectual "Luddite-ism".
>
> Aye, but thinking of it as fact is the same.
>

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