(November 18, 2013 at 9:52 am)Deidre32 Wrote: Yea, I will sometimes scream "Richard Dawkins!" when I hit the big "O". My lovers get used to it, after a while.
Do any of them ever ask "why'd you shout the name of the Family Feud guy" afterwards?
"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
