(November 30, 2016 at 4:57 pm)abaris Wrote:(November 30, 2016 at 4:48 pm)Tonus Wrote: Trump's 2005 remarks struck me as the end for him, and I suspect many others felt the same way.Call me crazy, but for me it was the point when I gave his win some serious considerations. The locker boy next door. What could possibly be more appealing?
The US is still somewhat conservative and just the idea of impropriety has either hurt or sunk campaigns in the past, and that was when the candidate was a Democrat. The thing about the 2005 tape is that Trump was boasting about chasing after a married woman for no other reason than sex. Remember, this is a GOP candidate who received a lot of support from evangelicals on his way to the nomination. It was one of the few times that Trump took an issue somewhat seriously, taping an apology after his attempt to dismiss it fell flat. I thought that this was the charge that would stick, where all of the 'fascist' and 'racist' talk could not.
"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."
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