(April 16, 2013 at 4:43 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote: Sure we do. Is not there something thrilling about porking the innocent, the weak, the protected?What is this "porking" you speak of? Does it involve a smoker and dry rub?
Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote:Sounds to me, rather, that it is inexperience which is so hostile as to bandy the word 'relevant' around.Pfft. The inexperienced know not of relevance. They think it's a cosmetics company.
"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
