(June 27, 2014 at 6:22 am)Cato Wrote: Is it just me, or has Poe quality taken a nose dive in the last few years? They used to be knowledgable, provocative and imaginative. Now we must settle for predictable and drab.Too many all at once, with a very similar schtick. Might even be the same person.
"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
