Why does creationism matter so much? Scientifically, of course, itâ??s nonsense. Evolution is actually true. But why should this particular bit of nonsense get so many people so very upset? All of the polling evidence and surveys I know of show that the public are pretty confused about evolution â?? but also that they are confused about everything else that science reveals.
A quarter of Americans, for example, believe that the sun goes around the earth. Some absurd proportion of English school leavers believes, or will tell you, that the earth is 10,000 years old. Surveys show clearly that the public believe in homeopathy and in astrology. Yet the only one of these displays of ignorance that is treated as morally culpable is creationism.
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