At last gleams of light have come, & I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.

The quote in the title came from Charles Darwin in 1844, 15 years before he published his 1859 masterpiece, On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. He knew he was going to permanently change everything. He knew the world's religious idiots would complain about it. I wonder if he thought there would still be religious tards complaining about evolution in 2012.

The permanent change Darwin made in 1859 was it became impossible for an intelligent person to invoke a magical god for anything. Darwin didn't eliminate every gap for the god of the gaps, but he did kill the most important hiding place for every god ever invented, which is the explanation for the diversity of life. With one brilliant idea which he had spent his life finding evidence for, natural selection, he killed god.

More than 150 years later there are still people who didn't get the darwin killed god memo, but their children or grandchildren or more future generations will figure it out. It's pointless to believe in a god who never had anything to do, and Darwin demonstrated this beyond any doubt. Thousands of scientists who came after Darwin have been busy pounding nails into god's coffin. God is dead, dead, dead. Good riddance.

Darwin to Hooker, J. D. [11 Jan 1844]

Charles Darwin: Writing Origin 'like confessing a murder'

Evolution is God's redundancy notice, his pink slip.

This post at another blog is about the theocratic idiots who didn't get the darwin killed god memo:

Teaching Creationism is a Form of Terrorism and of Child Abuse.