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Your knowledge of evolution is staggering.

As is my knowledge of astrology. But I know enough to know I don't see the stars exerting control over man in a predictable and describable way nor do I see generations of one kind of animal transforming themselves into another kind of animal.

People too easily become mental slaves to "conventional scientific wisdom". It wasn't too long ago that conventional scientific wisdom stated that the world was flat.

Apparently your knowledge of History is about as good as your knowledge of Evolution.

You said "People too easily become mental slaves to "conventional scientific wisdom". It wasn't too long ago that conventional scientific wisdom stated that the world was flat."

Only if you consider the ancient Greeks to be "too long ago". Heck, according to young earthers that's almost half the age of the universe.

The Alexandrian philosopher Eratosthenes not only knew the world was spherical; he took a measure of its circumference.

It was this measurement that Christopher Columbus argued with; not against the notion that the world was flat. In fact Columbus was wrong, and Eratosthenes made a quite accurate measure.

If one is applying the Scientific method, the model of the flat earth isn't that bad, your only off by less than a foot per mile, that inaccuracy just keeps piling up in the same sloping direction.

More importantly, if your using the Scientific method, one is open to discussing that inaccuracy and willing to entertain other, more accurate, models. Such as the spherical earth. Turns out that the spherical earth theory is also inaccurate; the earth is flatter at one end. So we are now with the "misshapen sphere" model, and it is the most accurate yet.

If one is using the "Creationist method" rather than the Scientific method, one would quote the "four corners of the Earth" part of the Bible and be unwilling to change their model, and burn anyone at the stake who suggested that the Earth was not flat and/or the immovable center of the universe.

Giovanni Bruno, who reminds me of the Italian journalist who was killed by Islamofascist scum whose last words were "Now I show you how an Italian dies!"; was burned for just such an offense. His last words were "Nonetheless IT MOVES!" So does conventional scientific wisdom, and it moves to a more accurate model.