(December 9, 2014 at 11:01 am)Manowar Wrote: The Senate is going to release a torture report. Not sure if this is a good idea, there is going to be a shit storm over this.A better idea would have been not torturing people, but that ship has sailed. If it's that big a risk to all of our personnel out in the field, then perhaps it's time to bring them back home... and remind them not to torture anyone while they're here, too.
"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
