(February 7, 2014 at 5:52 pm)Boris Karloff Wrote: Do you prefer simply to be entertained by cheap thrills or do you like to see substance and artistic imprint ?Both, though not in the same film. I can appreciate a well-told and well-acted story that pulls me in and keeps me spellbound. I can also enjoy a movie that asks me to turn off my brain and enjoy the pretty explosions. Or the blood and gore. Or the tits. Or the upskirt panty shots. Or all of the above, if it's anime.
"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
