(March 21, 2014 at 1:21 pm)Minimalist Wrote: A number of years ago a buddy of mine who was a Jets fan ( I was a Giants fan, at the time) was whining about the latest Jet disaster.The sad part is that it's impossible to put this in a narrow time frame, seeing as "the latest Jet disaster" could refer to any season between 1970 and yesterday.
"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
