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Originally Posted by Waxing_Gibbous
I'm still not sure when string theory got elevated to a science, but at least it has some elegant math.
One of the prices we pay for instant information on the 'web' (2.0) is the plethora of crackpots that are as free as anyone to expostulate whatever nonsense thay want.
The truly important thing, in fact the ONLY important thing, is that these people are not allowed credence at the political level.
Remember in the late '80s, America was effectively being run by Nancy Reagan's astrologer!
Look how well that turned out.
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Too late for that, Peter. Creationism has political credence in the US and in some other countries and it's spreading. It's not the only crackpot idea that's spreading around, either.
It's usually those people that are in the most serious trouble that can't see that they are. They just blithely carry on like nothing's happening or going to happen, and then when it does, they're usually the first to start blaming everyone else but themselves. We're in trouble...some more so than others, but the rot has set in. We're in the same position as Rome was in 350-400AD and it won't be long before something happens to make everything start to unravel. Might be a few decades or so, but it will happen. I only hope we can manage to stop it, or at least some of us can.