Hah, I like crabby Losty. <3
(August 20, 2014 at 6:25 am)Losty Wrote: Ok seriously. I completely agree with you, but I mean come on. Must you take the thread title so literally?Sometimes I use the thread topic as a quote to show that I'm responding to the general idea in the OP and not to a specific comment in the topic. I may take the ongoing discussion into account, but sometimes I just want to give my thoughts on the original post and then I might respond to other posts separately.
"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
