Condescension isn't really a tactic, and it doesn't work on its own. Anyone can pretend to look down on someone else. If you've got the goods, why not condescend? But if you condescend, make you you've got the goods.
And if you think that's shallow, then clearly you're just too limited to understand. *grabs another truffle*
And if you think that's shallow, then clearly you're just too limited to understand. *grabs another truffle*
"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
