(January 28, 2015 at 11:14 pm)Chas Wrote: How do you even function in the modern world?In my experience, all but the most deranged conspiracy nuts go on about their lives as if the stuff they constantly pretend to worry about isn't happening. I have a friend who falls for just about every conspiracy out there, but it simply doesn't change his day-to-day life. It strikes me as very "Walter Mitty-ish." They get to pretend that they're one of a small group that has somehow managed to step outside of the matrix and see the real machinery of control, but they're also pretty confident that the men in black aren't going to kidnap their family.
You are so willfully ignorant that if you expended even a tenth of the effort on education that you do on denial, you would be a paragon of knowledge.
"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
