(April 2, 2014 at 9:36 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Oddly, doesn't sound any sillier than the jesus freaks' version.It sounds cooler, though. Instead of threatening unbelievers with something as banal and insipid as "you're going to hell" the FSM worshipers can say "Pasta la vista... BABY" in a mock Austrian drawl.
"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