(December 1, 2014 at 10:54 pm)professor Wrote: Let's see, I think this may be the eighth time I tell you the world never ends.I think that if you had a nickel for every time someone predicted the end of the world (or a change of management) you'd have a stack of nickels larger than Jupiter. Which means you'd have a massive planet made entirely of nickels, which is both cool and terrifying at the same time.
It gets a change of management.
"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
