(March 4, 2014 at 11:05 am)Aractus Wrote:Or irrationality. Our subconscious mind accepts a lot of things that aren't rational, and we live our lives behaving according to what it happens to accept.(March 4, 2014 at 9:38 am)Tonus Wrote: As I understand it, research indicates that we are wired to believe that these things do happen, but that they will not happen to us.Yes and that's either the definition of stupidity or insanity, take your pick.
"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