(February 11, 2014 at 3:52 pm)Minimalist Wrote: They merely lack the votes to pass an alternative which is as irresponsible as they want.Heh, that just lets them play the victim, which at least provides some comedy relief. Remember, keeping them in the public eye has the benefit of reminding people what can happen if they ever get enough of a majority to do real damage. Although in a nation that is ~80% theist, that could go spectacularly wrong...
"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
