(November 29, 2014 at 3:22 pm)whateverist Wrote: 8) It is my fondest wish to surpass Min and win this goddam race.Surpassing min on rep is actually possible in this realm of reality. Surpassing him on kudos, however, would require the heat death of the universe to arrive very, very late.
"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