TRUE, ANYWAY

I've been thinking about how many Bible literalists believe that evolution is a tale, made up, because it clashes with what the Bible says how Biblegod made every living thing in a set time as they were and none of them changed. They even have people with real science degrees and experience teaching this. It's called Creationism, or to use it's less political name Intelligent Design. There is even a small lobby of people who want to get it taught in schools alongside evolution to allow the children to make their own mind up.
Well, at one time the Church believed and taught that the earth was the centre of everything, was fixed, didn't move, and the sun and other planets went around it.
Today, the literalists have only got words, they can mock the theory of evolution or lobby against it, but when the Church taught that the earth was stationary they had real power to kill anyone who disagreed, who dared look through their telescopes and do the maths and work out the obvious truth, it moves, the earth moves, around the sun.
It took hundreds of years for the Church to admit, yes, we were in error, and those we burned or locked away or forced into house arrest to show we were right, well, they had it right.
That's how I know that, without the muscle, the Church, the Bible literalists, will carry on mocking and lobbying until one day they, maybe not in our generation, maybe in the generation of my little great nephew, or his children, will admit, we were wrong, evolution explains the diversity of life.
Because if the theists were wrong about the earth being the centre of everything, then they are wrong about Biblegod creating everything as they are, with no room for adaptation.
Actually, what an idea for a story! In an alternate universe where the Bible literalists hold the power and can legally condemn people to prison or even death if they teach the damnable heresy of change. And one scientist is forced to recant on his knees, he was wrong, animals never change, they were the same as God created them and at the same time he mutters under his breath;
"And yet they do change!"