(August 14, 2014 at 3:00 pm)czúzyt ylgájla Wrote: Don't you fear saying embarrassing stuff (or dangerous secrets (how realistic is pretty little liars, I don't watch it, I'm just asking)?We're Americans! Saying embarrassing stuff is kind of like a rite of passage. Or if you're a politician, it's just something you do every time you open your mouth.
"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
