(December 12, 2014 at 1:46 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: I have a question: does poe = sock puppet? I'm used to hearing the second term referring to a second/alt forum account created by a regular in order to humorously troll a forum, but not the first.It's a reference to Poe's Law, which states that a parody of an extremist or fundamentalist position cannot be differentiated from the real thing.
"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