I want to shed some "lyte" on disbelief. Today is September 14th, 2009. That's 2009, not 1809, or 1709. I could have sworn we were in a new millennium. But apparently not, because I just found out that a movie about Charles Darwin can't find a single distributor here in the U.S.
Nope, a movie about the man who posited the theory of evolution is considered too "controversial". That's because only 39% of Americans polled by Gallup in February believe in evolution. Evolution is a scientific theory, not a religion, it doesn't require believers. Evolution happens whether you believe in it or not. But a majority of Americans are opting out.
It's like the Enlightenment never happened. Forget Jefferson, or Kant, or Voltaire. We are now a nation that follows Limbaugh, Dobson, and Beck. What's that whooshing sound? Oh, it is the rest of the world passing us by as we embrace a mindset more reminiscent of the Middle Ages. Hey, maybe in American there is no evolution. Just ideology.
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