Evidence for Parallel Universes

The Los Angeles Times has a lengthy piece this morning on an Australian evangelist, Ken Ham, who is packing churches in America with his in-your-face message to science that evolution is wrong. Here is an excerpt of a session with Ham speaking to 2,300 elementary aged kids:

"Boys and girls," Ham said. If a teacher so much as mentions evolution, or the Big Bang, or an era when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, "you put your hand up and you say, 'Excuse me, were you there?' Can you remember that?"

The children roared their assent.

"Sometimes people will answer, 'No, but you weren't there either,' " Ham told them. "Then you say, 'No, I wasn't, but I know someone who was, and I have his book about the history of the world.' " He waved his Bible in the air.

"Who's the only one who's always been there?" Ham asked.

"God!" the boys and girls shouted.

"Who's the only one who knows everything?"

"God!"

"So who should you always trust, God or the scientists?"

The children answered with a thundering: "God!"

Ham apparently packs them in at churches around the country and rakes it in with speaking fees and the sale of DVD's and books. He also has a radio show heard on more than 1000 Christian stations. Ham also tells his crowds that the teaching of evolution is the root of all social evils:

When pastors dismiss the creation account as a fable, he says, they give their flock license to disregard the Bible's moral teachings as well. He shows his audiences a graphic that places the theory of evolution at the root of all social ills: abortion, divorce, racism, gay marriage, store clerks who say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas."

Ham and his vast audiences offer the firmest evidence possible that there such things as parallel universes. It's the same sun up in the sky; the time is the same; it's America; but stepping into their worldview is stepping into another universe. There, the earth and its inhabitants just appeared intact, finished, and ready for us to send spaceships to the moon. There is only one history textbook, one science textbook, one religious textbook, and happily it's all the same book. And any "fact" that seems to trouble the brain can simply be ignored. It is, in fact, a wonderfully simple universe. Thinking is definitely discouraged. Smiling children are everywhere.