And there is a potential danger of religion: if god exists, he'll tell us all we need to know, and therefore why bother trying to learn anything else? This cave is cozy enough, and there are a few hours of daylight to allow us to read these stone tablets containing the wisdom of god... what more do we need?
"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
