Interestingly enough, in 2,000 years we may be able to verify that a man named Anthony Stark existed, but the stories of how he built a suit of mobile body armor that utilized advanced cybernetic and electromagnetic systems will be a matter of faith; lots of eyewitness testimony but no physical evidence.
"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
