(August 19, 2014 at 3:51 pm)Goosebump Wrote: I'm very sorry, I am a poor speller and poorer proof reader. I often lack attention to detail. Thank you for pointing out my error, I assume I selected the wrong spell check word, and using light humor to make it enjoyable for everyone.Don't worry about it, I can't resist a good setup. Laughter keeps us young.
I meant to use the word condescension I suppose I should stick with smaller words in the future to avoid such embarrassment.
We generalize frequently to make a point; from time to time it's bound to catch up with us. I was being semi-serious in my initial reply to you. I try to look beyond the person and address the argument because the argument is what is important. Don't let what you think they feel get in the way of that.*
*Probably not that useful coming from the guy who made fun of your spelling, but we work with the clay we are given. Or something like that.
"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
