(December 4, 2016 at 9:59 pm)Shell B Wrote:(December 4, 2016 at 9:52 pm)Tonus Wrote: With a fair amount of land around it?Oh, yes. He wants the house. I want the land.
I grew up in NYC and lived there until last year. Houses in the city and nearby suburbs have almost no land around them and are almost as cramped as the apartment buildings I lived in. I moved out here (Dayton OH suburbs) and it's almost rural. Got a nice house on a half-acre for about 1/4 of the cost of the same house on almost no land in NYC. A half-acre out here is pretty small as the locals see it, but it's all the room I'll ever need. And as a bonus, doing yard work drops my blood pressure by a pretty good amount so I've got a reason to smile while I stumble around pretending to know what I'm doing.
"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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