(December 12, 2014 at 4:20 pm)Heywood Wrote: Impede is to obstruct and the intent of the First Amendment was to forbid the state from passing laws which unnecessarily obstruct speech, press, or religion.How would taxing churches obstruct religion? They tax the media companies that form the press-- does that obstruct the press?
"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