<H4>Ignorance, anti-scientism and evolution illustrated</H4>

I love using analogies for illustrative purposes in my newspaper columns. And Pharyngula has a great one
ignorance of Iraq and creationism.

Here’s the key point:

"If you saw an hour-long piece on al-Jazeerah about the reality of the United States, with English subtitles, and the reporter speaking on the U.S. had never been to America, had never read a book about America, did not know a word of English, and moreover said all kinds of things that were complete fantasy and altogether wrong, would that man be someone you would recommend to others as having an important opinion on the matter that millions of people should be exposed to on NPR and CNN every other day?"

Replace the al-Jazeerah reporter with a creationist, and substitute biology for all the references to the US, and you have the situation that annoys the scientists in this country, too.