To deny
objective truths is to be scientifically illiterate, not to be ideologically
principled.
(Neil
deGrasse Tyson’s Starry Messenger perspectives on Civilization.)
On this day, November 24th, in 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, which ignited the sometimes violent controversy over the origin of man.
Today, the
evolutionary tree of life has been so well documented that scientists consider
it an ‘objective truth.’
Yet, one
hundred and sixty-five years later there are still people, tying their personal
beliefs to a two thousand years old book that was the impetus of the Dark Ages,
a time of scientific ignorance and religious persecution - and with their
banners flying high demand that Creationism be taught to children in school, in
place the scientific objective truth of Darwinian Evolution.
Ignorance
abides
the Ol’Buzzard
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