(March 11, 2014 at 9:02 pm)OfMiceAndMen Wrote: Tomorrow is my 27th birthday. I'm having a bit of anxiety about growing old. 27 years old.I first felt that way when I was approaching my 28th birthday and realized that I was just two years away from hitting 30. So I confided in a friend about my apprehension about nearing 30. His reply was "30's not so bad, it's the 40's you really need to worry about." At this point I realized that I had asked this of a man in his mid-40s, and realized how silly I was being about the whole thing, and stopped worrying about it.
And more than seventeen years later, I still don't worry about it.
"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
