For the life of me, I'll never figure out what some people think the word "evidence" means.
For example, during my years of debating Creationists, I've seen the flimsiest excuses for "evidence" of divine creation. Look at any website dealing with Creationism and you'll see what I mean. They'll point to something that is clearly evidence for evolution… the platypus, for example… and claim it is evidence for God. "Only God would have the imagination to come up with such a creature." Or they'll go the reverse way. "Random chance could never produce something so elaborately intricate as the human eye." This, they say, is evidence of Creationism.
Then there are the morons who claim that America is a Christian nation. Their evidence? "In God We Trust" is our national motto. It's on our coinage and currency. Congress and the branches of our military have paid chaplains on staff. And so on and so forth.
Here's one you'll get a kick out of. Their "evidence" that there is a God is summed up as, "So many people couldn't be wrong."
It would by hysterically funny if it weren't so sad.
We have a society here in America that has no idea what really constitutes "evidence." This is largely because we're so scientifically ignorant. And why are we scientifically ignorant? Because of our insistence upon clinging to this religious crap and the habit of ignoring anything scientific that goes against the crap.
We lambasted Kansas for their anti-evolution school board not long ago, but it's not just one Midwestern state. It's our entire country. And this should scare each and every one of us.
