(August 28, 2014 at 3:45 pm)bladevalant546 Wrote: Always the slippery slope no? However, surely there is a balance I mean look at the South man....it is turning into a dystopia, as minimalist stated.I see it as the price we pay. To be honest, I was just as keen on free speech rights when I was a conservative religious person. I lack faith that the people in power would use that kind of power responsibly. In our right/left two party system, you're only one election cycle away from giving a powerful legislative tool to one party or the other and leaving their opponents with few options to stop them.
"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
