(June 20, 2013 at 12:51 am)Ivy Wrote: I don't feel excited, to be honest. I'm content and feel that it was the right thing to do.
That sounds about right. But also, remember that the reason that you kept it secret for so long isn't because something is wrong with you. Misdirected fear and shame are potent weapons in the arsenal of the bigot.
"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
