We have a handful of regulars and a rotating cast of fly-by-nighters. The latter either start a couple of threads and then disappear, or periodically return to post a few useless and/or stupid replies, or waste everyone's time with lengthy topics where they trot out one tired apologetic meme after another and either repeat them after they feel enough time has passed or simply give up and troll us until they finally burn out and leave or are banned.
Not terribly surprising; the material they have to work with isn't very good to begin with, and there are only so many shades of lipstick you can smear on a pig's snout.
Not terribly surprising; the material they have to work with isn't very good to begin with, and there are only so many shades of lipstick you can smear on a pig's snout.
"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
