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People want comfort and security, not cold hard facts
Socrates II — (archived)

Most people do not have the educational skills or the social security
to handle a vast, indifferent Universe. Add in decades of religious
indoctrination (just try to avoid religion in America) and the tenents
of science will continue to work with but a relatively limited number.

Oh sure, the general public will always enjoy the fruits of science and
technology, but they won't really understand it and when the stuff hits
the fan in life, it's not a science lab they'll be running to for salvation.

Maybe some day the human species will "grow up" enough to handle
the realities of science, but I also think we may have to become
something quite different in the process. Biologically we should still
be living like our Stone Age ancestors.

This certainly does not mean I want to see science and its findings
dismissed because people are too undeveloped/immature to deal with a
big, cold Cosmos, but neither do I want to keep banging my head
against a wall in frustration every time someone declares evolution to
be the work of the Devil or that yet another wall stain has been chosen
as the latest sign from God.

While we're at it, if we have to accept one creation story, we need to
accept them ALL out of fairness, right?

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