(November 24, 2016 at 11:54 am)Tiberius Wrote: Also if people feel there are arbitrary rules they should make a case for why we should remove them. I don't personally believe any of our rules are arbitrary but I welcome anyone who wants to correct me.
In that case, your post is missing at least one comma. I'd say two, but then this thread would be hijacked by some grammar pedant.
"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
