I'll probably be scarce for a while since I'm just a few months from a big move and some equally big changes. I don't like to "plan" forum absences so I won't say I'll be gone or not, but I'm pretty busy these days and will be so through the end of summer at the least. All good stuff, but requiring lots of time and attention until I'm settled in.
"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