A Democracy -- One man one vote.
A Constitutional Republic -- The People elect representatives for limited terms that are to exercise their will.
In a Democracy, Al Gore would have been elected President in 2002. Thank God the constitution places LIMITS on democracy.
But this is all off topic.
Back to science. Perhaps tomorrow we can start a thread on string theory!
by a popularly elected president---
I wouldn't necessarily call that a republic!
Bananna(evolution) republic for the past 100 years!
On a side note… (relationship to the string theory)
The ID theory has been around for a long time and before the ‘blind watchmaker’, ID was usually compared with a musical instrument rather than some deity winding an object and letting it run its course…
“Granted, if the universe is like a clockwork (cf. the design arguments of the British natural theologians), then it would be inappropriate for God, who presumably is a consummate designer, to intervene periodically to adjust the clock. Instead of periodically giving the universe the gift of "clock-winding and clock-setting," God should simply have created a universe that never needed winding or setting. But what if instead the universe is like a musical instrument (cf. the design arguments of the Church Fathers, like Gregory of Nazianzus, who compared the universe to a lute -- in this respect I much prefer the design arguments of the early Church to the design arguments of the British natural theologians)? Then it is entirely appropriate for God to interact with the universe by introducing design (or in this analogy, by skillfully playing a musical instrument). Change the metaphor from a clockwork to a musical instrument, and the charge of "withholding gifts" dissolves. So long as there are consummate pianists and composers, player-pianos will always remain inferior to real pianos. The incompleteness of the real piano taken by itself is therefore irrelevant here. Musical instruments require a musician to complete them. Thus, if the universe is more like a musical instrument than a clock, it is appropriate for a designer to interact with it in ways that affect its physical state.”
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