On 18/01/2014 03:15 AM, clipka wrote:
> Just came across this refreshingly unbiased documentary:

Although "we requested comment, but they stipulated conditions 
incompatible with normal journalistic practise"... yeah, that sounds 
nicely vague, doesn't it?

I mean, I'm sure what they *actually* said is "we will only talk to you 
if we get to edit out the questions we don't want to answer". But this 
authoritative "incompatible with normal journalistic practise" still 
sounds slightly creepy.

> Some interesting stuff in there that surprised me myself, re how
> well-tested Darwin's theory of evolution actually is

Looking at the crumbling remains of some barely recognisable bones is 
one thing. But when you look at DNA sequences and see how utterly 
identical some of them are, and watch how they gradually change as you 
move from species to species, and from continent... it's really quite 
hard to deny that there's something going on here. It's roughly the 
equivalent of *insisting* that the Earth is flat, and that there's no 
evidence to the contrary.

> and also why it's so poorly accepted in the US.

This is the thing that gets me. I'm less interested in watching a 2-hour 
documentary about "he said, she said, they said", and more interested in 
"why the hell do 50% of the population ACTUALLY BELIEVE something which 
is obviously ridiculous?"

That, to me, is the issue here. As long as there are unbelievers, there 
will be legal battles, there will be death threats, there will be 
conspiracies and underhanded tactics to force evolution out. This is not 
surprising. The question is, WHY ARE THERE UNBELIEVERS?? Why do people 
have these weird beliefs in the first place?

Quantum mechanics makes utterly bizarre claims that defy belief... and 
nobody is receiving death threats over teaching quantum mechanics. 
Evolution states the obvious, and the entire country is in uproar... WTF?

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