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Dramaer (思无邪) 于 (Wed Mar 28 23:51:07 2012, 美东) 提到:
“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 do not go away when scientists debate rival theories
to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but
apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air, pending the outcome. And
humans evolved from apelike ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's
proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered.”
— Stephen Jay Gould，"Evolution as Fact and Theory," Hen's Teeth and Horse'
s Toes, New York: W. W. Norton, 1994, p. 254. |
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