(June 28, 2014 at 7:13 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Isn't it amusing how swiftly (and utterly) Lot is exonerated of any wrongdoing?And how the women in his life are either utter failures (wife gets herself turned into salt because she committed the ultimate sin: looking over her shoulder) or props (to save two strangers from rape, Lot substitutes his daughters) or tramps ("hey, mom's dead-- let's go fuck daddy!"). The man was an HBO comedy series just waiting to happen.
"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
