The Reason Is That In A Group,

Human History Is Highly Nonlinear And Unpredictable.

Science Is The Best Tool Ever Devised For Understanding How The World Works.

The Price Of Liberty Is, In Addition To Eternal Vigilance, Eternal Patience With The Vacuous Blather Occasionally Expressed From Behind The Shield Of Free Speech.

Either The Soul Survives Death Or It Does Not, And There Is No Scientific Evidence That It Does.

Myths Are About The Human Struggle To Deal With The Great Passages Of Time And Life--birth, Death, Marriage, The Transitions From Childhood To Adulthood To Old Age. They Meet A Need In The Psychological Or Spiritual Nature Of Humans That Has Absolutely Nothing To Do With Science. To Try To Turn A Myth Into A Science, Or A Science Into A Myth, Is An Insult To Myths, An Insult To Religion, And An Insult To Science. In Attempting To Do This, Creationists Have Missed The Significance, Meaning, And Sublime Nature Of Myths. They Took A Beautiful Story Of Creation And Re-creation And Ruined It.