(June 20, 2015 at 12:01 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: If you could take a pill that would cause you to stop aging and render you immortal until the end of the world (whatever this means to you), would you take it?
Please explain your answer.
Yeah. The end of the world would either happen when the sun finally starts dying and burns the Earth into a cinder, or when Andromeda 'collides' with the Milky Way, or maybe somewhere in between (say, if a large enough meteor/planetoid slammed into the planet, or the day after the last fire-breathing whore dies off). The end would probably be kind of sucky, but I'm just too curious to care. And living long enough to maybe see religion die off, or see humanity colonize the stars, might just be worth it all.
"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
