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Don't you find it interesting that a bunch of people with no education or experience in an area can look at a picture on the Internet and declare thos who do have education and experience to be fools and not able to see the critter for what it really is.

Arrogance City.

What's amazing to me is how the internet has brought unprecedented access to experts in every field. On this very message boards, we have astronomers, physicists, biologists, and chemists, all able to answer all types of questions from laymen. In previous generations, one would need to have lengthy written correspondance, or paid for expensive courses at university, or be a member of a professional organization to have such conctact. Today, these experts are virtually at our fingertips. What's more, in this particular online community these experts are not only able, but willing to take the time to write detailed explanations and to correct misconceptions held by people who do not have expertise on the subject.

I go back and read evo threads from 2000, 1999, 98 before I started posting here, and I'm appalled at seeing the same thing over, and over again that I see today. Instead of thanking these people for their time and effort in answering questions, they're roundly condemned as being money-grubbing atheist tools sucking at the goverment teat. It's not that people just don't understand science. There's a culture of hostile, willfull ignorance that I find personally repugnant. Someone else mentioned on another thread that it's just like the Cindy Sheehan phenomenon: A know-nothing cheered on by a bunch of know-nothings, who don't realize how clueless they are, don't want to know how clueless they are, and resist any effort to show them how clueless they are.