RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
January 26, 2015 at 8:32 am
(January 25, 2015 at 11:28 pm)Alice Wrote:You are! That's good to hear, in a manner of speaking.(January 25, 2015 at 7:37 pm)Tonus Wrote: She did.Like... 3 years ago. I'm much prettier sounding these days
"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