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Originally Posted by iceman
...it's extremely unlikely that people will change what they believe.
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I am reminded of C. P. Snow's "Two Cultures", a book written back in the 1950's or 1960's, about how science is divorced from popular culture.
Scientific understanding only seems to seep out into popular culture slowly if at all, if not distorted.
Most people go home and point the magic stick at the magic box and watch the moving images, such is their (including my) understanding of the technology that surrounds us.
I suspect we will always have a society where science operates at the margins but contrubutes so much to our material welfare. I think most people, and our politcal leaders, understand this.