Interview with Jerry Falwell re: Evolution

FALWELL: You know, Heidi, the battle we've been fighting for all of these years as creationists is academic freedom.

"Academic freedom", eh? Is that what we're supposed to call it when some hack wants to pretend that a myth is reality and that said myth is worthy of scientific validation? Mr. Falwell is certainly free to teach whatever hairbrained nonsense he likes over at Bonkjob --er, "Liberty" -- University, but if he thinks that equal time should be given to his fairy tales in science class, he's got another thing coming. The Christian Creation myth belongs in a social studies course along with Greek mythology, Norse mythology, etc.

Young people, when they hear the facts on both sides, or what are proposed to be facts, overwhelmingly, like 80 percent of the American people, accept and adopt creationism.

And that, somehow, makes it true? This is reality we're talking about...it's not a majority rules situation. It is what it is whether a majority like it or not. A majority once thought that the world was flat, that the sun revolved around the Earth. The fact that they were a majority didn't make them any less wrong.