(March 26, 2014 at 12:26 pm)Esquilax Wrote: I would so write a series of secular porn stories for you guys. You know, virginal church-going nice girls getting tempted to blaspheme via orgasm denial at the hands of that damned atheist neighbor who she knows she's not supposed to talk to but is oh so good with rope...I know it's fiction, but that's just stretching credulity too far.
"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
