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| Originally Posted by nickb For their part they gave me a book to read that purported to counter all of the evidence in favour of evolution, it appeared to be aimed at junior school children and the arguments it put forward were paper-thin. |
What?
That thick? I'm surprised!
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These are the sort of mentalities we're dealing with. It would be laughable if religious fundmentalism wasn't posing one of the most serious threats to our future security.
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Mate, in the US religion is invariably suborned to business, and often the two are so closed intertwined as to be inseparable - if happy-clappy Evangelical 'pastors' can make a buck out of 'saving' the great unwashed, they will, but was it ever thus? In the 14th Century I could have secured you a place in Heaven if you purchased - from me - the fingerbone of the right forefinger of St Peter.....the fact that I had twelve-gross of the things to flog is neither here nor there
