(May 6, 2014 at 11:53 pm)snowtracks Wrote: humans contemplate the future and a component of that is they don't believe in annihilation. why? because something tells them it's not true.Which is why some of them wrote a book that constantly talks about people and cities and eventually entire societies being annihilated... and called it the Bible.
"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