(January 21, 2015 at 7:20 pm)Davka Wrote: i gotta wonder how these "obama is the antichrist! run for the hills!" loons are going to deal with reality when 2016 comes around and we elect a new president and the world doesn't end.They won't even miss a beat; they'll just identify another person as the antichrist. If end-world prognosticators have taught us anything, it's that being wrong doesn't faze them in the least. There's always the next apocalypse to look forward to.
"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
