(March 11, 2014 at 12:00 am)Deidre32 Wrote: It's a shame we can't come up with a hybrid of socialism and capitalism.We actually have something along those lines, a capitalist system with government-led regulation. No system is perfect, and the USA suffers from too much influence wielded by the very people and companies affected by the regulation. We have the tools, we just don't use them as well as we could.
"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
