(April 9, 2013 at 6:04 pm)Godschild Wrote: Why would you as a juror accept this? Even though I told the truth there is no demonstrable proof I did, so why is this man in jail.
Based on what you described, there would be no logical reason for a juror to vote guilty on such flimsy evidence. If the man is in jail, it is due to a miscarriage of justice. Was no other evidence collected and presented to a jury? Did the accused killer's counsel make no attempt to defend him? Did the jury simply reject the rest of the evidence? Or did they find the lack of evidence to be of no consequence?
"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
