[TheDon]

“Our own faculty has gotten sensitized to the issue that there's a bunch of people that just don't get it,” Kohn said.

He doesn't expect much progress in resolving the evolution debate anytime soon.

“I think there is a deep-seated desire to believe that humans are special, and that the Earth is our dominion rather than we're just another endpoint among all the other endpoints of evolution,” Kohn said.

Nice to see they are so open minded at UCSD.

[Jhohanna]

Nice to see they are so open minded at UCSD.

I think you forgot the /sarc tag. :P

They are a big Jesuit college... one of the bigger ones, I believe.

[101st-Eagle]

I think there is a deep-seated desire to believe that humans are special, and that the Earth is our dominion rather than we're just another endpoint among all the other endpoints of evolution,” Kohn said

I think there is another deep seated desire to accept that we can't really know either way.

That might get me flamed by the "knowers."