RE: White guilt
September 10, 2014 at 6:34 pm
(This post was last modified: September 10, 2014 at 6:34 pm by Tonus.)
My ancestors are both Spanish and native Puerto Ricans. Which means that some of my ancestors committed some pretty horrible atrocities against some of my other ancestors. So every now and then, when the guilt is really getting me down, I go to Cold Stone Creamery and pay myself a bit of reparation.
"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
