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SevenPinkerton:
Ancient Mayans would be fascinating to study. The bioanth/forensics would be so interesting in such a complex society as you'd be able to distinguish so many differences between status and areas in which they lived. Just the diseases that showed up with Europeans would be fun to study in the archaeological record!

Anyways, the other day we had a speaker come in to talk about the creationist issue and more or less provided us with all their scary, creepy little secrets and made it very hard to have any respect for them. I have no idea how I'm ever going to respectfully discuss the evolution/creationist debate with anyone now.

RedLion:
I'm not attempting to stir up debate here, I genuinely don't understand this: How can people not understand the process of evolution, if they take the time to do at least some perfunctory research on it? And how are there people who do claim to understand who refuse to acknowledge it? It'd be like refusing to acknowledge gravity, to me. It doesn't make sense.

Doug S. Machina:
I thought about (but never started) writing a satirical peice which denied the existence of the water cycle. Heresy! Water is a gift from God and that's all there is to it. Similar.

SevenPinkerton:
Religion leads people to believe some crazy things. Besides, creationists (or, their new term to avoid the fact that creationism was officially removed from schools- Intelligent Design) believe that evolution not only takes away from the "truth" that is the bible, but is the cause of everything "wrong" in this society, from rampant consumerism to gay marriage. How they get to this conclusion, I don't think anyone really knows for sure.

The scary thing is that these families are literally breeding large families (or armies) and homeschooling them to believe this stuff.

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