(August 27, 2014 at 9:26 am)FreeTony Wrote: Is this sort of thing normal in America?Normal? No. Surprising? Sadly... also no.
In a nation of 330 million people with a superiority complex, the number of magnificently stupid specimens is probably higher than expected.
"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
