(January 30, 2015 at 1:52 pm)Roxy904 Wrote: I've never understood the fervor over groups of padded men in stupid outfits repeatedly crashing into each in a desperate effort to reach an ovalesque object.By all that's holy, make sure you never do. Sports fanaticism is... okay, it can be pretty goddamn awesome. So never mind.
"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