re: #929 PatriotLizardoid

Here’s where I popped in the discussion as well. I think, to be fair, there are more options than just misled or dishonest. Bob is right, but I’ll go one further and say that people who do honestly disagree with us are very good people to debate with, and some of my greatest intellectual opponents are neither stupid or liars.

The scientific community has always been riddled with the most contentious debate though, this is nothing new. I think Alfred Wegener (plate tectonic theory dude) died alone and penniless as an intellectual outcast on a glacier in Greenland. Only posthumously did everyone look up and say “hey, he was right!”

Some scientific theories come and go; others come and stay. Evolution has been with us for 150 years. It has been supported by ALL the empirical evidence, and contradicted by NONE of it. It is one of the most massively verified theories in the history of science. It’s no more going anywhere than are the germ theory of disease, the heliocentric theory of the solar system, the spherical theory of the earth, Einsteinin relativity, or Feynmannian quantum mechanics.