(November 20, 2014 at 10:10 am)Stimbo Wrote: Still 'lolling' at "stop arguing with someone that is above your intellectual superior". Translated, that means 'trust what I say because I'm so much smarter than you ', whether or not that's true (and as Esq pointed out, the language is a dead giveaway here). No wonder you go all frothy over Wells and anyone else in a lab coat, Maj. I'd say no wonder you're religious, as well, if it wasn't such a truism. Trust the powerful and the glib.
You're just jealous that he's more smarterer than you.
"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