(December 1, 2013 at 8:47 pm)snowtracks Wrote: not the best strategy to have a bravdo attitude about eternal destiny issues.
It's only a strategy if you believe that there is an eternal destiny. For those who disbelieve, there is nothing to fear. For those who believe, there is nothing but fear.
"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