Thinking On A Higher Level

CARL SAGAN SAID that we live in a world extremely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. he also pointed out that there is no shortage of intelligence among Americans, or among people in general. What was lacking was education. Thus we deduce that if we could greatly increase science and technology education in the United States and world wide, we could significantly reduce the number of people who know hardly anything about science and technology. Doesn't take a genius to figure that out. Another problem is that a significant percentage of the population has a negative attitude about science, usually for religious reasons. Wherever science disproves long accepted sacred religious beliefs, religious people reject science. In America, a large percentage of conservative Christian republicans reject both evolution by natural selection and man made climate change, both of which are scientific fact, but neither of which conform to their political and religious ideology, and so are rejected. This is dangerous. its very dangerous to human civilization and progress for a significant percent of the population to arbitrarily reject reality because of extreme devotion to a belief or religion which is nothing more than sheer fantasy. Science, including evolution and climate change, is truth, religion, whether the Old Testament, miracles or Hindu history of the gods, is human imagination in primitive cultural circumstances. The sooner we accept this, the better. Einstein said that problems can only be solved by using a higher level of intelligence than that which created the problems in the first place. It would be nice if all the energy we use arguing over whether to teach evolution and climate change in public schools could be used - to teach evolution and climate change, as well as the rest of science. It would be even nicer if our dear conservative climate change denying friends would suddenly see the light, and help the rest of us fight climate change, while we still can. The twenty first century, with our fast computers and ever expanding knowledge, is a mighty poor time to be rejecting basic, factual, everyday, obvious science, and dwelling in a world of pure fancy. The sooner we can get all the right wing conservative Christian types to the table, and get them on board with modern reality, the sooner the better and just maybe, for once, we can all live together in intelligent, enlightened harmony.