(May 3, 2014 at 4:44 am)Mothonis_Cathicgal Wrote: I was always afraid of looking foolish and i don't have alot of self esteem.
Everyone's going to look foolish from time to time. Here's a secret: you can build self-esteem just as effectively from those times when you are wrong, because you come to realize that being wrong isn't the end of the world (literally, in the case of some of our theistic forum members). Being wrong is when we learn the quickest, as long as we recognize that we were wrong.
"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
