Sixty-six percent of the Republican voters in Mississippi don’t believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution.

— Jane Mayer.

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Oh ho ho Funny man!

Tomorrow: neuroscientist Dean Buonomano. He says our brains are adapted for a prehistoric world very different than our own — and its quirks affect the way we think and behave. (His lab)

It’s horrible. Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back.

— Science guru Bill Nye, on the reticence to teach evolution in high school science classes in the United States.  (Bill Nye on NPR)