(March 25, 2019 at 2:10 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(March 23, 2019 at 11:34 pm)fredd bear Wrote: Another (short) Ted lecture, which I found fascinating, and hope some members will too.
He makes the interesting point that the scientific debate about Evolution was over by 1870. From that time until now, the international scientific community has simply accepted Evolution as fact. There is no debate, except in the minds of the deeply ignorant and bloody minded dogmatic religious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18YwBwIK...jreload=10
DNA went beyond what you are pointing out here and really put the nail in the coffin of old mythology. But yea, evolution was widely accepted even before the Scopes Trial.
Even the Scopes trial was political. What was on trial wasn't whether evolution was true, but whether teaching evolution should be illegal. The trial was more or less a put-up job - Scopes was approached by the ACLU to make himself a test case, and he agreed.
The trial brought a lot of money into a small town, which was the whole point.
Boru
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