(January 25, 2015 at 2:29 pm)Lek Wrote: Here's a view from a christian "death cultist". I see no reason why living to 100 would be better than living to 17 just because it's longer. I measure the value of our lives according to quality, not quantity.Well then... all else being equal, living to 100 is better than living to 17. The only consistent difference between the two is that the former is far, far longer than the latter. And longevity can provide quality, seeing as few people want to die young and many people make their greatest contributions to society in their middle and advanced ages.
"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
