Truth

We hear complaints all the time from conservatives that universities " indoctrinate " students with liberal ideas, and are hostile to conservatism. Not so. We don ' t " indoctrinate " students, we educate them. The problem is that modern conservative beliefs are incompatible with truth and logic. Here are many true facts.The universe is approximately 13.81 billion years old. The earth is a bit more than 4.5 billion years old. The earliest compelling evidence for life on earth is about 3.7 billion years old.The oldest known fossils that are anatomically the same as ours are about 300,000 years old.All life on earth today has a common ancestor, from which innumerable species descended and differentiated by evolution -- mutation and selection. (No, we aren ' t descended from monkeys.)At the time of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, Africans were legally enslaved in all 13 colonies. It was not until 1804 that all of the northern states had passed laws abolishing slavery, but abolition was generally phased in. The last slave in New York was freed in 1827.All of the southern states continued to enslave Africans until the Confederacy was defeated in the Civil War. The reason the southern states seceded was to protect the institution of slavery.After the Civil War, the white population of the south used organized terrorism to deprive the newly freed people of political and civil rights, property and economic opportunity.The Bible is not historically accurate. It is a co...
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