(September 21, 2013 at 9:22 am)Drich Wrote: Truthfully, I'd be honored to be apart of that last Generation.
I think that this is why so many end-of-world predictions are expected to come in the lifetime of those who predicted them. There's an excitement in thinking that god chose 'our time' to finally roll up his sleeves and start massacring everyone else and using their skulls to pave our path to heaven. A few of the end-of-world predictions in the past were expected to come long after those who made them were dead, and I'm sure they took a lot of heat for that. No one wants to miss out on the apocalypse!
"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