Tonight’s edition of This Is America comes to us from Tulsa, in yet another letter-to-the-editor:

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By Michael Galazin, Broken Arrow
Published: 3/2/20122:27 AM
Last Modified: 3/2/20123:45 AM

Did all organisms evolve over time from a common ancestor, a single-celled organism? Charles Darwin said that his hypothesis of evolution would be proved or disproved by the fossil record.

Instead of housing an orderly progression of organisms in successive layers, the fossil record reveals a sudden, simultaneous explosion of life forms. Simple fungi, arthropods, dinosaurs and humans (yes, humans!) show up together in the same rock stratum in Glen Rose, Texas. [No, this is just wrong, and the footprints are a hoax.]

Meanwhile, significant transitional-life-form fossils remain undiscovered. It only takes one observation of fact to disprove a hypothesis, no matter how beloved that hypothesis might be.

Darwin’s hypothesis is disproven. Flora and fauna did not evolve gradually over millions of years. Yet the intelligentsia and the local newspaper editors howl about any attempts to teach this fact to schoolchildren. Why? Because they fear the alternative?

This is America.