(February 9, 2015 at 6:31 am)pocaracas Wrote: That's one way to get Natural Selection to work... I guess....Harsh but accurate. If you follow the advice of loons, especially when there is plenty of good advice on the issue, you risk disaster.
The NHL (yes, the professional hockey league) had to deal with a mumps epidemic a few months back. Mumps! This is what happens when you have a population that didn't live through stuff like smallpox and polio and starts to wonder if vaccinations are all that important. The nuts and the snake-oil salesmen show up and things go to hell.
"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
