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About RedDiva
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RedDiva
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Michigan
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Member Since:
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Nov 20, 2000
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Parrothead467
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Secular.org
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Activity Summary
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Reviews Written: 28
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Member Visits: 2,512
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About RedDiva
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According to a recent Gallup poll, 53 percent of Americans are actually creationists. This means that despite a full century of scientific insights attesting to the antiquity of life and the greater antiquity of the earth, more than half of our neighbors believe that the entire cosmos was created six thousand years ago. This is, incidentally, about a thousand years after the Sumerians invented glue. Those with the power to elect our presidents and congressmen -and many who themselves get elected- believe that dinosaurs lived two by two upon Noah's ark, that light from distant galaxies was created en route to the earth, and that the first members of our species were fashioned out of dirt and divine breath, in a garden with a talking snake, by the hand of an invisible God.
Among developed nations, America stands alone in these convictions. Our country now appears, as at no other time in her history, like a lumbering, bellicose, dim-witted giant. Anyone who cares about the fate of civilization would do well to recognize that the combination of great power and great stupidity is simply terrifying, even to one's friends.
Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation, (New York: A.A. Knopf, 2006), p. x
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