A few days ago I started watching a series of youtube videos in which Richard Dawkins interviewed Wendy Wright, president for Concerned Women of America. There are seven parts to this interview and let me tell you, it was a trial to get through them all. Part 1 can be found here, if you want to have a gander.
I have spent the past couple of days trying to wrap my mind around how this woman thinks. The most immediate and obvious conclusion I can come up with is that she isn't thinking. She has an infuriating tendency to say the same things over and over, making her sound like a tape machine being rewound and replayed.
The primary argument being discussed is the teaching of creationism in schools. Wright wants creationism taught alongside the theory of evolution in science classes. Creationists seem to have the notion that creationism is a valid idea. It is based on the biblical myth of the creation of the world and all life on it, and it is supposed to have happened less than 10,000 years ago. Of course this is utter nonsense, but it is amazing how many people actually believe this.
However, what particularly bothered me about this interview is Wright's assertion that there is no valid proof to support evolution. She insists there is no evidence. Dawkins gives her several examples, telling her she can look at the evidence in books and museums. He tells her there is a tremendous amount of physical evidence that proves evolution is correct. She refuses to see it. And what's really ironic is that several times she accuses scientists of being close-minded.
How much of a closed mind must one have to be incapable of seeing something that is right in front of you? I am not sure I'll ever be able to understand this. It seems a form of madness to me. But this morning I watched the clip below and it does help me to begin to have an understanding of this mindset. Apparently, humans have evolved to think that way.
Well, that figures.
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