(December 11, 2014 at 9:00 pm)Beccs Wrote: I certainly haven't gotten away with anything because of my skin colour, not that I've ever done anything particularly serious: speeding and kicking some guy who groped me in the balls.I can only imagine the look on his face when he realized he was groping you in the balls.
"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
