(December 12, 2016 at 10:42 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Goddammit, I still haven't come to terms with dinosaurs that aren't Archaeopteryx having feathers and seeing a dinosaur tail with this many feathers is actually more jarring than I would have expected.
I die a little on the inside anytime I see an image of a velociraptor covered in feathers.
"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
