(September 9, 2014 at 9:53 pm)professor Wrote: Put yourself in the position mentally of a super rich.But we know how the super-rich remain in control of their destiny. It's called... BEING SUPER-RICH. Is there anyone who doesn't think that the ultra-wealthy use their money to buy influence at all levels of business and government? It's as if you told us about this closely-held secret about how it only rains on cloudy days.
Mere millionaires are far, far below you.
Do you really think in that powerful lofty position that you would cross your fingers and hope for your continued success (option A)?
Or would you INSURE through all means possible that you remain in control of your destiny (option B)?
"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