(September 18, 2013 at 12:43 pm)Stimbo Wrote: By this time feeling very smug, he develops a case of Anageria, which inevitably makes him smaller. On his birthday, as he lies there on his death bed in some little manger, with his parents apparently happy to see him go, three blokes on camels turn up unannounced and nick all his presents.
At the end, he is killed by suffocation, when his mother shoves him into her cervix.
"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
