(July 21, 2014 at 6:01 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: The Jersey Devil- 0%I think we can put this one to rest:
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For the rest, I tend to take a "believe it when I see it, or better evidence than blurry photos or video of someone in a gorilla suit" approach to such phenomena. I wonder what effect the advances in photographic retouching and video re-enactments will have on future generations? There are plenty of "found footage" films that look pretty convincing in spots, and photo retouching has (IMO) surpassed what people thought we'd be able to do. How will a public weaned on Photoshop and Paranormal Activity react to attempts at passing off evidence of mythical or supernatural entities?
"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
