(April 22, 2013 at 6:17 pm)Macky Avelli Wrote: You're generalising and so am I. Generalisations are not inherently invalid.
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Macky Avelli Wrote:A man's base need is for sex? Seriously? I've heard of 2 men in my life who have no interest or need for sex. This invalidates your argument completely.
"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