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I agree—not to mention the several other nut cases from other states. Oh well. To tell the truth, I don’t care about this debate so should stay off these evo-threads. The truth is the truth—I don’t understand why grown people take these odd stands in the face of all evidence, but to me, it’s evidence of something else going on in their heads. I don’t like calling them names, frankly, because I feel rather sorry for them and have no idea why it is so incredibly important for them to take this stand. Although, as I said, I think its symptomatic of a great fear of losing their faith. It reminds me of a wonderful short story called The Man Who Saw Through Heaven by Wilbur Daniel Steele. If anyone is interested in this story, it is about a newly minted reverend with very narrow, rigid ideas about God and heaven, who is going to Africa as a missionary. To pass the time, before the ship sails, one of the insurance company employees (the narrator of the story) is asked to entertain him, so takes the reverend to an observatory because the narrator’s friend is an astronomer. The reverend is completely shocked and questions the astronomer about the great distances—and the astronomer obliges. The rest of the story jumps ahead and is about how the narrator has been asked to track the reverend down somewhere in Africa because the poor reverend seems to have lost his mind and faith right after the observatory experience. It’s a fascinating story with a fascinating conclusion—the reverend is dead by the time the narrator catches up with him, but the reverend…. (no, I won’t tell!)