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Excellent point! They are defending their power, their prestige, their high positions in the universities and scientific organizations all over the world, they have their disciples and followers (and probably groupies as well..), honor and distinction follow them like handmaidens. They are the elite, the high priests, the aristocracy!

And when the theory of evolution is discarded on the scap heap of history, they will have lost everything that gives their lives meaning. Naturally they are clinging on for dear life. Who wants to admit that "my whole life was spent chasing a mirage, and it turns out I'm not only not as smart as I thought I was, I'm just a damn fool after all."

Better to be:

"a knuckledragging God believing evolution rejecting simpleton".

They are defending their power, their prestige, their high positions in the universities and scientific organizations all over the world, they have their disciples and followers (and probably groupies as well..), honor and distinction follow them like handmaidens. They are the elite, the high priests, the aristocracy!

Thats about it!!

Who wants to admit that "my whole life was spent chasing a mirage, and it turns out I'm not only not as smart as I thought I was, I'm just a damn fool after all."

Well I for one, would reject it and run away as quick as I saw that. But then I'm just a simpleton knuckledragging God believing rejector of evolution with bad grammar and sentence structure.

Wolf