They called themselves the Fundamentalists. God in America: A New Light, PBS 2010
Fundamentalists launched a nationwide campaign to ban the teaching of evolution in America’s schools. ibid.
John Scope was found guilty. Teaching evolution remained illegal in Tennessee and several other states. ibid.
Water was instrumental in the evolution of our uniquely human style of walking … A rethinking of the role of the water molecule in our human story. H20: The Molecule that Made US II, BBC 2020
Evolution selects for people who are predisposed to the pathology just noted because throughout most of human history keeping the group together conferred greater survival and reproductive advantages than any individual ‘being right’. If you were right, the group would eventually figure it out and it was more important that the group remain intact than you be right. So, our brains developed to tend to consciously acknowledge the kind of realities that threatened group cohesion when most of the group was ready to come to the same conclusion. Anonymous, board post 21st June 2005 ‘Comparative Apologetics’
Shocking discoveries revealing glimpses of mankind’s ancient past. The bones of giants that lived centuries ago. And primitive beast-men roaming the wilderness. The UnXplained with William Shatner s3e16: Mysteries of the Missing Link