(March 22, 2013 at 4:55 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: That's not even worth joking as Lovecraft. The man was nothing if not scholarly with his language.
I was thinking of the "ves! VES! VUAGAHAA!" part. I suppose it's not quite "Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn!" but it's got a bit of flavor all its own.
"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