(January 31, 2014 at 9:28 pm)Tripwire Wrote: If you got raped, you should've been more careful. (Not justifying it by any means.)But that is a justification. The only "if" that should be applied to rape is "if some asshole had not decided to commit rape." Most rapes do not occur because a woman wandered into a dark alley drunk and wearing a short skirt.
"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
