This idea I have which will never come true goes like this:
A preacher man gets curious and decides to find out why all the world's biologists love evolution. He reads about the evidence, he thinks it's interesting so he keeps at it. Eventually he realizes he has been extremely wrong about evolution all his life. He learns how to love evolution, how it works, and the powerful evidence for it.
Then the preacher has to make a decision. Does he pretend he's still stupid enough to believe in magical creationism? No, because this is a honest preacher man. He can't lie to his customers. So during the next sermon he talks about evolution and why it's true and why he loves it.
The reaction from the customers would be fun to watch.
That's my fantasy that will probably never happen.
"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
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