(September 25, 2013 at 8:40 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: A/S/K only works if you expect an answer. So when someone proceeds with this expectation but still receives zilch for an answer, did they do it wrong (which is silly to assume since they followed all the steps to the letter)? Also, for those that receive an answer, how can one be certain that person isn't just fooling themselves?
It's used as a way to obfuscate and distract from having to answer difficult questions. Much in the same way as spending several pages pretending to figure out a workable definition of "proof" and whether or not a person is a teacher or a scientist in the hopes that she gives up before there is any actual discussion. You'd think "the truth" would easily hold up under any method of investigation. Guess not.
"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
