(April 2, 2013 at 5:37 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Perhaps I don't condemn foolishness as I should. Perhaps I am tolerant of it, because, I lived my life being foolish myself and don't want to condemn my past self.
Ehh... if slapping the shit out of my past self would've helped me wake up sooner, I'd happily do it. If you're not condemning your past self as you get older, then you're not learning anything.
"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
