(April 27, 2014 at 11:40 am)nogodchick Wrote: When we were kids, we used to dump a nest of black ants on a nest of red ones 'cos we were bored. And watched them war with each other. I grew up, though. Seems like God hasn't.I dunno, if I was god I'd do shit like that all the time. I wonder what the world would look like if its inhabitants were constantly fighting...
"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