By the same token, PDQ, there is a lot more money available to researchers in evolution than there is to those seeking to prove intelligent design. And more for geophysicists who accept satellite measurements of the globe than those seeking to prove a flat-earth hypothesis. And more for the study of thermal properties of materials than for the analysis of phlogiston tides. The reason is that as more data has been gathered and verified, humans interested in progressing reject the more stupid for the less stupid, because it hads been found over the millennia that the stupid ideas are more harmful to survival broadly than the less stupid ones.

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