(November 18, 2013 at 8:45 am)Rigor Mortis Wrote: They spend there life b!thcin about something
That is a great bit of parody. I can recall the way many of my Christian peers would find ways around swearing, because the JWs are as strict about that as they are about everything else. They even admonished us not to say "jeez" or "sheesh" because it was just a way around using the lord's name in vain. But humans are human, after all, and nothing stopped people from using substitutes. Freaking, darn, fricking, dang, geez (in spite of the admonition) and so on. For a time I rationalized "clean" language by being one of those annoying people who acts as if he's somehow superior because he eschews four-letter words.
These days? Fuck that.
"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
