It's like the financial news, there are many attempts to identify trends and see the next one coming and to build some kind of story around it because in a 24/7 news cycle you have to have something to print every hour or so. A couple of summers ago it was probably "Why Comic Book Super Heroes Now Rule Hollywood" or something like that. Next summer it will be "Why Burning Buildings Now Rule Hollywood." Or even this fall. News cycles can't wait that long.
"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
