(May 1, 2014 at 2:44 pm)Lek Wrote: Your post didn't answer my comment at all.I was responding to the idea that was in the snippet that I quoted, since you opined that it was "often the case" that parents "just don't care" about their children. As for perpetuating the stereotype, I made sure to mention that it was my own experience that this was the case. I don't know if it's an unfair stereotype, and I suspect that you don't, either.
"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
