Hot on the heels of my post about science outsourcing — I give you exhibit A in how we shoot ourselves in the foot as a nation:
Their Own Version of a Big Bang – Los Angeles Times
“Who’s the only one who’s always been there?” Ham asked.
“God!” the boys and girls shouted.
“Who’s the only one who knows everything?”
“God!”
“So who should you always trust, God or the scientists?”
The children answered with a thundering: “God!”
That is a truly freaky article, not least because Ham is Austrailan, & so comes from a society where, as I remember it, a majority (plurality?) of people are either agnostic or atheists.
These same people are worried that non procreative sex will ruin our country as they actively work to take away our greatest advantage over the rest of the world.
Indeed, look at what evolution is doing to our country:
(from the article, bottom of page 1)