(September 30, 2014 at 9:58 pm)DramaQueen Wrote: And can't they budget
Less demonstrative answer: apparently not. This is the same state that handed hundreds of millions to the local hockey team for a new sports arena in Detroit, which has been devastated by the economic downturn and is hemorrhaging people at a considerable rate.
"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
