Always a pleasure to read your well-written posts, Schraf.
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People were much better informed regarding science and Biology in the past
My impression also. When I embarked on a career in science, scientists were revered as the most intelligent people in our society. No more, it would seem.
Now, the putrid clergy of so many religious mythologies have corrupted public opinion to the point where scientists are not to be trusted....
While truly educated people never lost sight of the fact that it was the clergy who were not to be trusted.
What's next under the Faith-based Initiative? Will they give the cursed Christian right permission to sell indulgences on the internet...? I hope you saw the NYT feature on how religious "non-profits" are now experiencing all kinds of special priviledges that disenfranchize legal businesses. If not, I can link it. To me, this goes entirely counter to the principles of our constituion, becuase the state is giving religious organizations competitive economic advantages over secular ones.
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US public education in critical thinking and the sciences is atrocious. Similarly, people don't read anywhere near as much as they used to. Now they just watch TV.
...and TV dotes on the lowest common demoninator and the shortest attention span, as driven by advertising revenue. No wonder we're breeding a nation of idiots.
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People are more ignorant of science now than they were 20 years ago.
Sad, but true. It's become virtual national domination by the Jesus-freaks - born-again zombies eating the brain of the country.
Denounce science! Up with JESUS! Can I have an AMEN?
Why are people so f***ing brain-dead that they refuse to question crap they are told by other people and believe in things just because they were told them by their parents - even when there exists SOLID data contridicting their myths?. I don't care WHERE I had been born, or into what religion, I would have questioned any such dogmas foisted upon me. And they all fail a stringent cognitive analysis.
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