It's an unfair analogy to compare all of conservative values to believing the earth is flat. Especially since the concept of this having any vaguely modern, an

It's an unfair analogy to compare all of conservative values to believing the earth is flat. Especially since the concept of this having any vaguely modern, and by modern I mean, like, High Middle Ages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth#High_and_Late_Middle_Ages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth#High_and_Late_Middl...) credibility is vile 19th Century and beyond propaganda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth And you're right about the consequences of daring to do science while conservative. It's sobering to realize the career I dedicated myself to until finances prevented me from getting a bachelor's degree would not be open to me if I were to enter college today (well, I might get away with exiling myself, but that's itself is telling). And if reality has a liberal bias, as that word is used today in the US, it sure is funny how much of it was elucidated by devout Christians.