(April 1, 2014 at 8:53 am)enrico Wrote:So, what is the definition of a non-sequitor?(April 1, 2014 at 8:43 am)Tonus Wrote: And yet you manage to post more insipid insanity in two posts than Jake can even dream of approaching in 20.So, what is the inner meaning of philosophy?
On the other hand, no one can accuse you of underachieving.
"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
