You have to wonder how the country that was first to the Moon, that was the world leader in science and technology could have fallen so far off the mark in the last few years when it comes to...science and technology.
How do we explain the number of people accepting "intelligent design", the Moon landing conspiracies and all the various and sundry fables that organized religion visits upon us? Why would a large number of Americans embrace superstition, suedo-science and just plain misinformation rather than good solid scientific evidence?
In a word...Religion. Religion makes it possible to fob off the most fantastic nonsense as truth. Many Americans have swallowed religion hook, line and sinker. If someone sees Jesus on his toast then it's taken as gospel that it was a manifestation of the Christ. If we put a man on the Moon, complete with pictures of the event, they believe it's a conspiracy. If you were to tell them that god says we went to the Moon they would believe it instantly.
In short, we have bought into faery tales at the expense of our logic, skepticism, and common sense.
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