What is this 'physics' and 'thermodynamics' of which you speak?

[thewayne]

"Carbon dating, all these things, really doesn't mean anything to a God who has the ability to create anything at any point in time."
—GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson, discussing his rejection of evolution theory

I didn't expect the hard-core lunacy quite this soon.

I don't expect him to last very long, but you never know.

Comments

[cp.livejournal.com]

Scary thing is, his point of view makes PERFECT sense to a fairly large number of Americans. Not enough to carry a national election or even a primary, or so we can hope. But plenty.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

The thing that I find scary is that critical thinking is becoming an endangered concept. It's really scary how many people accept whatever is on TV or online as truth, without researching it.

[cp.livejournal.com]

Confirmation bias can be pretty amazingly strong. And thanks to media balkanization, if one doesn't want to hear anything that doesn't completely conform to one's own dearly-held worldview, one no longer has to.