(July 17, 2013 at 6:00 pm)Vicki Q Wrote: Thanks for the welcome, and the 'heads up'. I've got to express a preference for robust reasoning over silly insults, though. If I wanted someone to be rude to me, I can just talk to my boss.
Yeah, but you risk adverse consequences if you tell your boss to stick his head in a blender and press the "puree" button. If you tell one of us that, the worst that will happen is you'll get a few kudos.
"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
