RE: So It Seems the Anti-Vax Crowd
February 9, 2015 at 12:11 pm
(This post was last modified: February 9, 2015 at 12:14 pm by Tonus.)
(February 7, 2015 at 5:15 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: The Americans took it and ran with it.It probably looked like a pair of scissors, then.
(February 8, 2015 at 2:24 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: What is it about being an American Christian and taking the stupid side in every debate?I think it's part of the same mindset; I have managed to pierce the veil that covers everyone else's eyes and seen the truth! That makes me special!
"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