(October 5, 2014 at 12:03 am)zolo Wrote: What are the damages?I'm going to assume that it's some variation of "emotional suffering" or psychological trauma, which I think tends to be tricky in civil trials. Even if a jury hands the plaintiff a large monetary award, the judge is likely to reduce it significantly even before an appeal.
"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
