(January 21, 2015 at 5:27 pm)Alice Wrote: That doesn't mean it has to be shouted to the north and the south and sung to the east and the west, "Alice is savior to all" something about heaven and earthworms.Sounds like the preface to a new holy book. Hey, it's been 2,000 years of the same shit, I'd go for some "Alice brings a sword to the water-gun party" for a change.
"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