(March 9, 2014 at 11:21 pm)thesummerqueen Wrote: I teared up.
At Cosmos - I didn't even click the link Beccs provided. I want to end tonight on a good note.
The comments section provides a nice antidote to that. When an internet site's comment section is the sane part of the page, you know how batshit insane the article's contents are.
"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
