This was written by a person who calls himself "Ceisiwr".
I've felt a sense of freedom ever since I realised in mid-teenage - about 45 years ago - that faith was based upon nothing but itself, that science explained nature satisfactorily without needing supernatural beings, and that religious beliefs were no different to those of ancient beliefs in gods and goddesses. And I'm happy and at peace with this. And I've found the humility to admit that I don't know everything, rather than masking this by invoking a deity.
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Not very often but sometimes I find something on the internet that is brilliant. Today I found this.
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