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Fifteen percent of Americans believe that life and humans evolved on this planet with no intervention from another power. Adherents to evolution are not just a minority, but they've slipped to 'cult' status.

The disagreement among Americans is over where the intervention occurred - some believe that God sparked life from nothing, guiding evolution, others believe He created everything wholesale. In any case, this is not an attack on science, it is science ignoring popular belief.

Some may argue that most people once believed that the earth was flat, or that the sun revolved around the earth. The comparison falls flat - whereas it is easily demonstrable that the planet isn't flat, or that the planet revolves around the sun, it is not demonstrable that evolution is an unbroken chain from a primordial soup to humans today; and if you extend it further, scientists have yet to come up with a demonstrable method of explaining what existed prior to the big bang.

The attack here is not on science, it is science attacking modern belief and then modeling themselves as being astounded when everyone doesn't take their word immediately and that proof is demanded.

No wonder so many liberals are attracted to Universities - one can come up with any idea and propound it as being 'the truth' and attack anyone who doesn't immediately fall in line. Socialism at it's best.