“When Charles Darwin first explained the matter, many people either wouldn’t or couldn’t grasp it. I myself flatly refused to believe Darwin’s theory when I first heard about it as a child. Almost everybody throughout history, up to the second half of the nineteenth century, has firmly believed in the opposite - the Conscious Designer theory. Many people still do, perhaps because the true, Darwinian explanation of our own existence is still, remarkably, not a routine part of the curriculum of a general education. It is certainly very widely misunderstood.” ~ Richard Dawkins
http://www.vidyaonline.net/arvindgupta/dawkinsblindwatchmaker.doc
I agree it is very sad when people mock what the do not understand.
So when did you lose your faith, Ira?
[[I agree it is very sad when people mock what the do not understand.]]
Sadder still when peopel beleive that a process which is a biologically, mathematically, chemically and natural impossible act was ‘done by nature’- but who are we to argue with people’s right to beleive whatever they want?