(April 2, 2014 at 2:16 pm)tor Wrote: I never understood the doctrine of blaming people for something somebody else did.
I bet it doesn't make sense even to frodo.
He understands it better than anyone else. Imagine what he had to go through because his uncle found a ring!
"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
