(April 2, 2014 at 5:14 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: It's just the way of all things. We'll be worm food just like the dinosaurs soon enough.We probably will go extinct at some point. I wonder what the next sentient species will think of us 65 million years later? So much of our record-keeping is either digital or on cheap paper. What if comic books survive and are considered to be the contemporary writings of ancient historians???
"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
