(December 18, 2013 at 4:51 pm)TaraJo Wrote: Dude. Have you picked up a history book? Or do you not pay attention to it? Do you know the impact it had on Germany when they were forced to pay war reparations after World War 1? Their entire economy tanked and the country was in such disarray that it allowed a dictator to take over; do you want that to happen again?
If we wreck the German economy now, they won't be able to bail out the rest of Europe!
"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