(December 13, 2016 at 6:11 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: Now ask yourself what kind of information can a man like Gates give to a man like Trump?
What it's like to be a real billionaire?
Gates' takeaway from the conversation is a bit bizarre:
Quote:Bill Gates suggested Tuesday that there was a bit in common between how President-elect Donald Trump and President John F. Kennedy communicated with the American people.
The billionaire philanthropist, who recently had a phone conversation with Trump to discuss clean energy and climate change, told CNBC that "there can be a very upbeat message" about a Trump administration.
"You know, a lot of his message has been about things where he sees things not as good as he'd like," he said.
The thing about this is, Gates was also announcing a large-scale effort to help the governments of the world deal with climate change. Climate change. You know, that thing that Trump seems to think is a Chinese hoax? That thing his administration seems to be intent on reversing, if his early cabinet appointments are any indication?
"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
