(January 2, 2015 at 5:15 am)Aoi Magi Wrote: Is this one of the annual doomsday prediction rituals?Kind of. Christians in particular look to some form of 'the times they are a-changing' as a guide to the return of Christ and either the rapture or the end of the world. It seems as if every few years, they are lamenting the way things are getting worse and worse, while also being hopeful that it heralds the second coming. But since this sort of grass-was-once-greener opining is a constant for people, they don't seem to realize that they've been making this same argument for, literally, hundreds of years.
Things aren't getting worse, they're getting a lot better. But that doesn't fit the narrative, so they have to remind us every now and again that we're all circling the drain and only Jesus can fish us out of the bowl in time.
"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
