(September 20, 2013 at 7:55 pm)Zazzy Wrote: Is there a thread somewhere on Rayaan's story? Searching him has not been useful. Once my curiosity gets going, it's hard to contain.
His story is more than any of us can handle, so he had to take it down. He replaced it with a post that read "I liek puppies." Sometimes you have no choice but to condescend. And we love him for it.
"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
