Sure. And in rare cases even keeping them from mashing into each other -- there's the rub. The very young, the woefully untrained and the sad-sack, plain old stupid of this world have a hard time holding two concepts apart and mush 'em up into one haphazard impression. That's where you get scheisskopf propositions like "Evolution is only a theory" (meaning on a par with my cousin Bill-Bob's theory that beer prevents cancer). It is so dumb it looks like it HAS to be scurrilous, but in fact it is just plain ole human ignorance working hard to take over the world, the cognitive equivalent of entropy.

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