(May 21, 2013 at 3:19 pm)Minimalist Wrote: No, but see....he wasn't really dead. It was like that Star Trek episode where Spock used the Vulcan Death Grip on Kirk to fool the Romulans.... he got better after the commercial.
You could say that he sacrificed an ugly suit. It's as if you went out and bought a suit and wore it, and everyone made fun of you because it was such an ugly suit. So you had a really miserable time (partly because you wore an ugly suit, partly because your friends are assholes!) and when you got home you dumped the suit in the trash and were done with it.
For he so loved the world, that he wore a cheap suit. I like the ring of that.
"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
