Something I'm passionate about.

I'm not sure why this issue gets me worked up.

My literary hero, Stephen Jay Gould, wrote so lucidly on evolution monthly for Scientific American(I think) for over 20 years. I mourned his passing as I mourned Hunter S. Thompson, and to a lesser extant, almost as much as I mourned my father's passing.

I have read it argued from so many angles, and proven so many times in so many ways that it's difficult for to imagine why anyone would think otherwise.

But it still is being debated.

Creationism has been proven false more times than any other crackpot idea that's festered in the collective consciousness of this great country.

We are the only country that even remotely considers creationism. No less than two Popes on two separate occasions posited that evolution was the purview of science, and that the mysteries of the soul were the realm of religion.

Evolution and its mechanism, Natural Selection, is called a Theory, because by definition in scientific terms a theory is:

“A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena.” *

Like racism, sexism, and other forms of ignorance in America; creationism must be confronted and rooted out like the bitter weed it is. One wonders what other agenda is being furthered, what power base is being established when reason is being turned on its head.

Orwell said it best in 1984 “Ignorance is Strength”, but strength for whom?

*The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth EditionCopyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.