KittenKoder
Senior Member
We're about half way to 300 years since the Origin of the Species, and about half of the population has accepted it, so I guess we're on track. I though science would be more accepted now than it was during the Middle Ages, though.
Well ... you thought wrong. Fact of the matter is that there are still a lot of religious nutjobs resisting scientific advancements of all sorts. A lesser known group is actually trying to end our space program .. and not because it's been wasting a lot of money lately (which would be a sound complaint) but because they think it goes against their gods wishes. Some even resisted the use of computers, many even still think medicine is evil. It's sad really, that there are still so many who resist change out of nothing but fear.
We do know a lot more now than we did during Copernicus' time, but Mark Twain summed it up best:
"It's not so much what we don't know, as it is what we do know t hat ain't so."
I hadn't heard of anyone resisting space travel because of their "god's wishes". That's a new one on me, but it does make sense. We are traveling in the "heavens", after all.
As I said, a lesser known group. I had heard of them in passing and never pay much mind to any idiot that resists scientific advancement or the advancement of knowledge.