A Galileo quote
It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment - Galileo
It is wonderful to see the faithful fighting against science these days. It is reminiscent of a boxer swinging at the air as he falls to the mat. Most have adapted to science, and all said it is a pretty sensible approach. Better to doge than be hit after all. This, of course, is the crux of how most mythicists deal with it. “Yeah, the book says the world was created in seven days, but that’s just symbolic. What are seven days to God?” (I hope I’m not straw dogging anyone here). Others still do their best to shove us back in to ye olde faithful dark ages by abandoning science alltogether. Reading the above quote from Galileo puts it in to perspective for me. This isn’t new, and with luck civilization will persevere through their latest attacks.
The funny part for me is that watching the fundamentalist movement working in tandem with the religiosity of the neo-cons I find it so obvious that it is nothing more than a ploy to control people, and yet a supposedly educated public does nothing but don the shackles and gladly take up their slavery. Even those who manage to break away from the overt control of the money grubbing churches they still till the same plot of land their master put them to as though they have somehow found freedom.