(June 19, 2014 at 11:36 am)Bibliofagus Wrote: Huh? That was a genuine question. How would one go about taking money without seeing it, touching it etc?Those are "god dollars." You can't see or touch them. But they're there. You cash them in after you die and wake up in heaven. If you wake up in hell you're pretty well screwed though, because the Devil treats that shit like confederate two-dollar bills. Won't even buy you one of those little flavored ices from the demon on the street corner.
"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
