(December 11, 2014 at 4:34 pm)professor Wrote: You think things are improving?They are, in ways that are quantifiable. Check the links.
End days predictions based on the deterioration of human society or signs of the times such as war, disease, famine, and natural disasters are nothing new: there are examples of them stretching back hundreds of years at the least. In other words, someone has always been warning us that the condition of the world is proof that the end is upon us. "Bible math" has been used to pinpoint the exact date of the second coming since at least the 1200s. The only consistent detail so far has been the results.
"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
