My real name is Milton. Years ago a co-worker called me "Miltonus" during a humorous discussion we were having. Not long after, when I was creating a character in Everquest, I shortened it to "Tonus" and have used the nickname for gaming characters and forums ever since. Prior to that I used "Uncamilty" because if your name is Milton and you were born in the 60s, a hell of a lot of people will call you Uncle Milty. I like Tonus better these days.
"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
