I'm continuously puzzled by people who insist that evolution is "just" a theory, but expect people to take literally a story about the world being created in seven days about 6,000 years ago. You cannot call them both "theories" and insist that they be given equal footing in scientific teaching when one has absolutely no valid empirical evidence! The mental acrobatics it requires to take the Bible "literally" astound me. I can only assume that Evangelicals and other fundamentalists are so incredibly frightened of the prospect of a world without Absolute Truth (according to their version of events, of course) sandwiched between leather covers that they are willing to throw common sense to the wind. Not only do they look like idiots but they degrade faith by trying to make it compete with science on its own terms. The two don't have to be mutually exclusive if you can open your mind just a crack to admit some ambiguity.
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"If ten million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
- Anatole France
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