some conservative Christians doubt Darwinian evolution because their 3,500-year-old sacred texts lay out a different idea for how all the animals and the rest of life on Earth came to be. These fundamentalists are simply exhibiting their constitutionally protected free expression of religion. They happen to be the minority of Christians,16 and I’m not interested in changing their views unless they try to overthrow the country’s science curriculum or lobby to become head of a government science agency. Plenty of high (and low) paying jobs exist that don’t require you to accept the tenets of
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