(February 26, 2014 at 11:01 am)Kayenneh Wrote: I would say that regarding olives, you are only supposed to at least have tasted them before saying that they taste like shit.Well yes, hopefully our opinions are informed by our experiences, although many TV debate shows seem to rely on the opposite for much of their content.
Quote:I think olives are yummy, you yucky.I must question the basis of that latter opinion!
"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