(July 30, 2013 at 11:08 am)ITChick Wrote: /sigh. Every time I see this post my mind reads "
Um...You're Fucking the Pope, Asshole!"
I think Min had to concentrate to avoid writing the phrase that normally comes to mind, which is "You're the fucking asshole, Pope!"
"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