(October 2, 2014 at 10:56 am)Rogue Wrote: Tonus,I think that humanity in general has made pretty good strides in terms of civility. We have much to overcome, some of it religious, some of it cultural, some of it biological, but we're making strides. The internet, which has allowed uncivil behavior to increase in some ways (anonymity and distance protect certain behavior) also helps to highlight such behavior and occasionally forces people to deal with it (social media, for example).
It does tell me something. That nobody knows and should stop fighting about it. I will not come to an absolute conclusion until we have more data. Until then I'm chilling.
I can definitely be rude or mocking from time-to-time, though I am willing to take as well as I give and I tend to take internet comments lightly. But I also enjoy engaging and intelligent discussion and am willing to put aside the snark where and when I find it.
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"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
