(October 7, 2014 at 10:23 am)Riketto Wrote: My impression is that you think that you can do this journey by yourself without the help of someone who has been there before.As you admit in the following sentence, doing it by yourself is possible. Just not efficient. I was always a pretty optimistic and happy person in my life, doing it on my own. I have been learning from others the past few years, which has accelerated my progress in numerous areas. If there is something beyond what I have found and learned, and I never find it, but I am happy and at peace, then I think I made out pretty well.
"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