"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
Sunday, January 12, 2014
I wrote this for a Christian who said "While your belief may be in science it doesn't make Christians 'stupid', 'foolish' or 'naive' for believing something else."
Science is not a belief. Science is all about discovering evidence for what really happened. Science is the search for truth, the real truth, not something imagined to be true, not something people wish for, not something people believe, but something that is real whether we like it or not.
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