On 10/11/2011 8:45 AM, Invisible wrote:
> On 11/10/2011 04:38 PM, Mike Raiford wrote:
>> On 10/6/2011 3:01 AM, Invisible wrote:
>>>>> What worries me is the possibility of a theory not being taken
>>>>> seriously
>>>>> because nobody likes it, rather than because the theory doesn't
>>>>> work...
>>>>
>>>> That has happened before, and it will happen again.
>>>
>>> Any concrete examples?
>>>
>>> Every example I know of where a theory wasn't believed because it seemed
>>> too silly, eventually facts won out.
>>
>> Creationists vs Evolution?
>
> Not really, no.
>
> The entire scientific community unanimously agrees that creationism is
> nonsense. It's the general public that fall for that one.

Even most of the general public doesn't, just a, sadly, large segment, 
who don't know what it says, so can't tell the difference between the 
real thing, and the gibberish an even smaller number of nuts, 
theologians, and con artists, says it is.

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