I recall reading an article about how the JWs talk about the way things are getting worse and worse and that it was a sign of the "end times." The article quoted from texts and letters and books going back centuries, and showed that for the last, like, 1,500 years, people were bitching about how things were getting worse and worse and there was no way humanity could survive at the pace that things were going. And of course, this meant that god's fiery vengeance was just around the corner.
Turns out that the universe has a billion million trillion corners, or something.
Turns out that the universe has a billion million trillion corners, or something.
"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
