big life; small space

I tend to believe that the nutball few manage to have nothing better to do, get their nutball issues in front of the right people because they don't have to worry about silly daliances like jobs or anything, and manage to get themselves listened to and acted upon even though given a headcount they wouldn't come close to any kind of majority. It then becomes misconstrued that those of us who feel we're "normal" in our acceptance of applied scientific measurements to something like the Grand Canyon are in no way blasphemous or heresy. And because so many of these nutballs manage to get some kind of religious background, you have more than willing organizations AND individuals willing to pitch in to them/for them in the misapprehension they are "doing the right thing"...or at least letting someone else do it for them while they're out having jobs or something...