(August 1, 2014 at 6:30 pm)Amalynne0 Wrote: I'm not sure its safe to ever be in a position where "nothing" could change one's mind.We almost never are. I think our minds are wired to pretend that we're convinced that whatever we believe is the absolute truth and that nothing could change that. Yet we change our minds about stuff all the time, and occasionally we undergo some pretty radical changes in our core beliefs that can shake us up.
In other words: yes, we can be wrong. No, we don't think we are.
"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
