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Timely. NPR’s program “Soundprint today explored the story of ancient footprints uncovered in Africa, and how evolution is both denied and manipulated by politicians and theologians in South Africa to achieve their personal agendas”:http://soundprint.org/radio/display_show/ID/37/name/Footprints.
This is an excellent illustration of just what happens when you couple the base states of religion and science with the dangerous phase of ideology.

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