(December 23, 2016 at 4:37 am)Alex K Wrote: I just praised my daughter for throwing her dinner plate at the wall somewhat more slowly than before. Was that wrong?
Absolutely. She'll never become a star athlete if you don't let her develop her skills properly, you cad.
"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