July 7th, 2007 a world of contradictions

My roommate is in the math research program with me. He is a physics and math double major, and is pretty smart. And he is Mormon. And he does not believe in evolution. What force, other than religion, could make such a smart man of science reject perhaps the most important and the most well-documented theory in the history of science? Religion.

It’s one thing to believe in something for which there is no evidence one way or the other, like God. Call it faith, if you will. But it is quite another to actively ignore evidence and believe in something which the evidence has clearly ruled out, like creationism. This is just pure stupidity.

It is sad that, despite the back-breaking efforts of so many scientists, faith and religion is putting people back in the 16th century.