Idiot America
Esquire sends Greetings from Idiot America:
A “politically savvy challenge to evolution” is as self-evidently ridiculous as an agriculturally savvy challenge to euclidean geometry would be. It makes as much sense as conducting a Gallup poll on gravity or running someone for president on the Alchemy Party ticket. It doesn’t matter what percentage of people believe they ought to be able to flap their arms and fly, none of them can. It doesn’t matter how many votes your candidate got, he’s not going to turn lead into gold. The sentence is so arrantly foolish that the only real news in it is where it appeared.
The article is great, and well reasoned overall. The fact that we are even having these absurd discussions—faith and reason are diametrically opposed—implies that not only has our political system been hijacked by idiots, the educational system has completely failed to instill even the slightest element of reason in a terrifying number of people.
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