Soleron on 01 November 2012
I think it is a huge problem that hardly any of Congress is scientifically literate. I hear politicians of both parties make arguments based on a limited or plain wrong understanding of the facts all the time.
To you though, I'd say go and read some popular science books. You don't have to understand the data, you just need to understand what IS and ISN'T possible in our world today. I recommend Blind Watchmaker for evolution: no science background required but you will see why evolution has great predictive and explanatory power and why it's the most likely of the alternatives.
You're not meant to have faith in science, you're meant to know that you can question it if you have better data and see your theory replace a worse one.
