(May 12, 2015 at 12:28 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: It is kind of reassuring when bad things happen to bad people. It is a bit of poetic justice. Now, if only that were always the case, along with good things happening to good people...In his case it's more like the obvious consequences of bad planning. Or perhaps an example of when bad things happen to people who insist on being unprepared. Would any other insurer have taken him on under his particular circumstances?
"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
