man this stuff

It just illustrates how severe the lack of subject knowledge these people have. The worst part is, they don't want to learn anything about it either, so that's - as they say - is that.

Thanks :) I just keep running into this confounding and obstinate refusal to learn... about anything really. It's like knowledge somehow comes from the devil or will somehow poison their souls.

Scan the shelves of a bookshop or a public library and you will see that most of the books are about the evanescent concerns of today... They take so much for granted, wholly forgetting how hard won was the scientific knowledge that gave us the comfortable and safe lives we enjoy. We are so ignorant of the facts upon which science and our scientific culture are established that we give equal place on our bookshelves to the nonsense of astrology, creationism, and junk science. At first, they were there to entertain, or to indulge our curiosity, and we did not take them seriously. . Now they are too often accepted as fact.