(March 27, 2015 at 12:41 pm)Stimbo Wrote: That Drich read my post and heard in his head these "new Annie's speech patterns" says far more about him than it does me.That's what I was wondering. There isn't anything in your post that would make me think that you were mocking "black" speech patterns. I wonder if we're approaching a meltdown?
"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
