(September 26, 2013 at 11:11 am)Airyaman Wrote: What does duress have to do with anything?
The idea is that Paul wouldn't make up a story if he thought it was going to lead to all of the crazy shit he experienced, which included being stoned (with rocks, not weed) and left for dead on one occasion.
"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