I received an email stating, "The flat earth society has members all over the globe." My reply was, "If they linked hands in a straight line and disappeared on the horizon, would they believe it?"
Sometimes I hear the words, "How did we get here?"
My reply is this, "When George W. Bush became president the issue of BELIEF came to the foreground of the USA's conscience. It lingered there for whatever reason, mostly because people who share beliefs are not alone in the world. Belief is far easier to accept than science. So, to me, the change of the paradigm of BELIEF vs. Science was also very convenient for the petroleum industry."