(September 10, 2014 at 6:51 pm)ShaMan Wrote:I think this version might be more accurate. If disease hadn't reduced native American numbers (by as much as 90% by some estimates), European 'conquerors' would have been very good at wetting their shorts and being massacred in great numbers.(September 10, 2014 at 6:49 pm)paulpablo Wrote: There's nothing to be guilty about, white people have smallpox has just been very good at colonizing and conquering terrorizing and displacing wiping out native people.I fixed that for you
"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
