(August 12, 2014 at 11:25 pm)Chuck Wrote: If only 95% of the people would have gone as deep as a popular encyclopedia on anything before the rise of internet.Yep. Information has always been accessible, but few people make any effort to get at it. In the past it might have been a bit tougher to get to, but it was there. Today we have lots of good information available at our fingertips, but... compare the number of times useful information is accessed versus the number of comments left on sites like ESPN or YouTube (by people who obviously never accessed a piece of useful information).
"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
