(April 26, 2013 at 1:38 pm)Raven Wrote: Entirely agree. But we know why they do it. It's an easy way for 'em to feel better without having to actually do anything, so I'd figure it'll never go away. Wish it would though.
Wishes are just mini-prayers, you know.
"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
