Interesting essay on communicating science to "red states".
Should you participate in the pitched battle of ideas, framing issues in emotional as well as factual ways, so people listen to your arguments? Yes.
Should we lose all basis in fact, focusing so much on winning that the ideas behind the struggle for truth lose any connection to the fact that there is a truth? No.
Granted, I may be wrong about what the truth is. But there is a fact of the matter. Either dinosaurs evolved, or God put them in the ground as a test of our faith. No one can tell the difference, but one is correct and one isn't. I don't believe God is that mean.
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