(April 2, 2013 at 12:22 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: What's the criteria of being an asshole or bigot?
I don't care much whether a person here is being an asshole or a bigot, as long as they're at least somewhat interesting. If your entire shtick is to fluff your own ego while pretending to know the motivations of others, and you don't actually bring anything interesting to the table, I'm not going to take you seriously. I don't care if it makes me an asshole, because I'm not really concerned with whether some self-absorbed nutcase with a jesus complex likes what I have to say.
"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
