RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 20, 2015 at 4:58 pm
Awww... I'll miss fr0d0. I didn't debate with him because I got the impression that he didn't want to reveal much about his beliefs and people would just go around in circles with him. And if a person isn't going to explain what/why he believes, then I lose interest. But he had a thick skin and a good sense of humor. I'll refuse to shave my feet for a whole week in his honor.
"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