(September 8, 2014 at 4:28 pm)professor Wrote: Min, you're gonna make a GREAT believer, a guy like you ultimately wrote all those epistles in the bible.The Gospel of Minimalist would probably be pretty entertaining. How do you write "blow your fucking god right out of your ass" in ancient Hebrew?
"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