Originally Posted By: Ellis
FF- Where do these people hear all this "anti-knowledge" nonsense which given to them as "truth"?


Ellis,
Quite literally, most of what people "know" about science and evolution amounts to Barbershop Gossip and rumor. They learn this anti-knowledge from their parents and grandparents, from their preachers, from family friends and members of their peer groups. They pick it up on YouTube and on the Internet. They also ingest it gradually and continuously from television programs and popular culture - to the point where they think they understand what it's about when they really don't. Literally, they have the illusion of knowledge. There are groups of people who have a very strong vested interest in misrepresenting the facts. The authority they use to influence people is based on faith in the "inerrant, literal word of the Living God." Their entire method is to sow confusion so that doubting evolution seems more reasonable than it is.

Evolution is a fact and a body of theory for explaining those facts. The only debate about whether evolution occurs is in the popular culture. Among scientists the debate is strictly about how evolution does occur, not whether it occurs.