The following is an exchange in the Modern Masters: Arthur Adams series of magazines on comic book artists:
Interviewer: If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
Adams: Oh my goodness. [laughs] Well, I don't believe in any particular god, but if there is one, what would I like to hear God say? "Yes, you can do it all again."
I like that answer.
Interviewer: If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
Adams: Oh my goodness. [laughs] Well, I don't believe in any particular god, but if there is one, what would I like to hear God say? "Yes, you can do it all again."
I like that answer.
"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
