From 79fa09bee241dd51cf47a465cb1cc2cc1d25cbdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shlomi Fish Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 09:31:02 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Remove a duplicate cookie. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=773115 - it was already present in "Science". Thanks to Aaron Hall for the report! --- fortune-mod/datfiles/cookie | 14 -------------- 1 file changed, 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/fortune-mod/datfiles/cookie b/fortune-mod/datfiles/cookie index e2dfd57..a207589 100644 --- a/fortune-mod/datfiles/cookie +++ b/fortune-mod/datfiles/cookie @@ -1467,20 +1467,6 @@ the railroad yards." - H. L. Mencken, writing of William Jennings Bryan, counsel for the supporters of Tennessee's anti-evolution law at the Scopes "Monkey Trial" in 1925. % -...we must counterpose the overwhelming judgment provided by consistent -observations and inferences by the thousands. The earth is billions of -years old and its living creatures are linked by ties of evolutionary -descent. Scientists stand accused of promoting dogma by so stating, but -do we brand people illiberal when they proclaim that the earth is neither -flat nor at the center of the universe? Science *has* taught us some -things with confidence! Evolution on an ancient earth is as well -established as our planet's shape and position. Our continuing struggle -to understand how evolution happens (the "theory of evolution") does not -cast our documentation of its occurrence -- the "fact of evolution" -- -into doubt. -- Stephen Jay Gould, "The Verdict on Creationism", The Skeptical Inquirer, - Vol XII No. 2 -% This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks -- to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines, no wires, no controls. -- 2.40.0