It is almost a cliche to say that West­ern civ­i­liza­tion was cre­at­ed by the Greeks. Our gov­ern­ment, law, art, music, archi­tec­ture, lit­er­a­ture, dra­ma, his­to­ri­og­ra­phy, sci­ence, and math­e­mat­ics are large­ly Greek inventions.

Here’s a sta­tis­tic that may sur­prise you. Accord­ing to a 1993 Gallup poll, 47 per­cent of all Amer­i­cans believe that God cre­at­ed human beings pret­ty much in their present form some­time dur­ing the past 10,000 years.

This from a cor­re­spon­dent: “I sus­pect that sci­ence makes sci­en­tists hap­pi­er than it does oth­er people.”