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Theory of evolution… Theory of gravity…

Tim Minchin - "“When I was in America last I read a survey, an analysis, actually, a meta-analysis of many surveys done over a 15 year period about American beliefs, and turns out Americans at a rate of 48-51%, um, don’t believe in evolution. Um, which is, like… Half. And on top of that 50-odd% a further 38-40% of Americans believe that biological evolution has occured, but believe it was initiated by, and has since been kind of administered by um, Go- God. Leaving a very small percentage of Americans who are right. It’s not my theory, uhh. I’ve done material about evolution before in Australia and in Britain and it barely raises as eyebrow, it’s just worth a chuckle, but in America it’s quite contentious to do comedy about evolution, y’know, it gets a gasp, it’s the equivalent of doing material about fisting anywhere else. It’s quite confronting for them. I’ve been heckled by a man in the front row in New York, loudly defending his disbelief in evolution. I’ve been pulled aside in foyers by people defending their disbelief in evolution in the same terms, interestingly enough, it’s the same defence that the intelligent design movement uses in the high courts of American States to try and sneak at pseudo science into American high schools, and that defence is always: “But evolution is only a theory!” Which is true, I mean, it is a theory and it’s good that they say that, I think, it gives you hope, doesn’t it, that maybe they feel the same way about the theory of gravity. And they might just float the fuck away.”

Posted on Friday, March 2, 2012 · , , , , · 1 Comment »

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