(September 13, 2013 at 10:08 pm)Maelstrom Wrote: It's all makeup and airbrushing. They're really ugly.
So if you look beyond the thin outer layer, you find the ugly truth. It's an appropriate metaphor.
Too bad, though. An intense session with them might have been very enlightening. Good for the, ah, growth of the soul.
"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
