...and they are not rare. I cannot believe how closed-minded "true believers" can be -- and how nasty. I don't know how one can claim to be a scientist if one's mind is hermetically sealed to "disfavored" or "prohibited" lines of inquiry.
***Any system of thought that denies or seeks to explain away the overwhelming evidence for design in biology is ideology, not science.” ***
I wonder if the Smithsonian has a posting in its personnel office that reads "no discrimination on race, religion, etc." per the government requirement of every other employer.
Some post those things, but don't really mean them.
As we all don our tinfoil hats daily, all things have become Orwellian. Science has been redefined as the search for knowledge that reinforces all present presuppositions; medicine has been redefined as any poison that is approved by the FDA division of the pharmaceutical corporations; Emergency management has now been defined as support for corrupt state and local governments, and free speech is now only that speech which agrees with the above definitions.
How long before each congregation must be licensed by a government approved denominational conclave?