A Facebook post demonstrating one person’s misunderstanding of how science works got me thinking about how people who favor religious faith over scientific evidence differ from the rest of us.

I realized that this sort of religious viewpoint channels Wooderson to a remarkable degree. That would be the character made iconic by Matthew McConaughey in Richard Linklater’s 1993 film Dazed and Confused, responsible for such pearls of wisdom as “You just gotta keep livin’ man, L-I-V-I-N.” And of course, “All right, all right, all right.” His most famous quote, of course, is this one: Continue reading →