(January 20, 2014 at 5:22 pm)Alice Wrote: infact: call me whatever you bloody well please.Then I will write "Alice" whenever I am addressing you, Alice. But I will pronounce the name "Violet of the Lilly Blossoms" every time I write it, and will wave my hand *like so* each time I do. Because life without the occasional irreverent flourish is not worth living.
"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
