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posted by [personal profile] fallon_ash at 03:47pm on 03/01/2011 under , , ,
I'm studying for my Evolution 301 final, and I meant to make a ranting post about how people who deny science and evolution frighten me more than... pretty much anything else. There are a great many things in the worl that disturb, distress, sadden, anger, shock me, etc etc etc, but there are few things that outright frighten me the way powerful people who deny the things that I trust to be the foundation of all life on this planet do. And the fact that I know of no comprehensive way to argue for it, the fact that any argument I make can be met with the same and just a switch of the words, that I'm sure they feel exactly the same way about me, that's the most frightening part of all. That if you can have it presented to you, proof by proof, and still not understand it to be (relative*) truth, that that makes me paralyzingly frightened for the future of the human race.

*Futuyma Evolution 2nd ed. p. 13-14, Ethics, Religion, and Evolution and Evolution as Fact and Theory

Disclaimer: I'm a Christian. A very liberal Christian, but a Christian just the same. So is my mother, who is a research biologist. I see no conflict of interest.

However, the thinking scientific feminist part of my brain was railroaded by this video and the primal part of my brain took over and is flailing incoherently at its hawtness.

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