(February 17, 2014 at 10:38 am)Raeven Wrote: This raises an important question I've been meaning to ask, because I have no idea: How do we fix gerrymandering? It's a big problem and has been for a long time, yet I've never heard anyone propose a solution to it. Thoughts?The biggest roadblock is partisan politics, which means it is very difficult to fix. Outside of that it would be very easy to map out districts and group them by a set of reasonable criteria. But the allure of carving out odd shapes for the specific purpose of building or maintaining political power is too great.
"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
