Sentences with phrase «slapping obviousness»

The trouble is that in venerating Darwin the man, we have detracted from the sheer, forehead - slapping obviousness of Darwinism the idea — at least in the minds of that section of the public that does not, you know, know anything about his science.

Sometimes scientific findings of such head - slapping obviousness — talking on the phone makes you a worse driver and men generally favor large breasts, for example — that they make the average lay person wonder how anyone ever got funding to investigate the question in the first place.