"Really, what do scientists have that Heartland Americans don’t? They have a fancy-pants degree that was approved by someone else with a fancy-pants degree, and the chain typically ends with a crooked politician that wants to advance his own heinous agenda. Scientists try to justify assault on religion by telling us that our grandparents were monkeys, our great-grandparents were clams, and our great-great grandparents were parameciums. It’s much easier to convince hard-working people to fund food stamps if they’re convinced that their ancestors were pond scum. It’s much easier for Stalin to murder his opponents if the population is convinced that we are drawn to a stupid ball of fire. It’s much easier for Democrats to justify murder of the unborn and Jews if the public is convinced of the relative concept of a ‘curvature of space’. It’s much easier for felons to avoid the death penalty if you convince the legal system that the world is a sphere."