(April 16, 2014 at 3:32 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Of course he didn't stay dead, either. At least according to the story.Indeed, his "sacrifice" consisted of a lousy weekend. Afterwards, he gave up the human costume he wore for a few years and was once again the most powerful being ever imaginable, which he will continue to be for eternity.
But I guess "he stubbed his toe for humanity" just doesn't carry the same weight.
"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