The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I think. When a scientist doesn’t know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darned sure of what the result is going to be, he is in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize the ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty—some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain. – Richard Feynman*
vs. Darwin’s theory of evolution is supported by “mountains of evidence,” or “mountains and mountains of evidence” or is even “fact! fact! FACT!”?
Change over time, yes. Patterns in the change? Yes. Things to learn? Yes.
but
Darwin’s theory of how it happened as the single best idea anyone has ever had, greater than Newton or Einstein or everyone else?
(Huh?)
That’s why there is a controversy.
*Note: Emphasis is in the material quoted from from What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, considered by many the founder of quantum electrodynamics.
Hat tip: Pos-Darwinista