When Will They Learn?
"I see no conflict in what the Bible tells me about God and what science tells me about nature. Like St. Augustine in A.D. 400, I do not find the wording of Genesis 1 and 2 to suggest a scientific textbook but a powerful and poetic description of God's intentions in creating the universe. The mechanism of creation is left unspecified. If God, who is all powerful and who is not limited by space and time, chose to use the mechanism of evolution to create you and me, who are we to say that wasn't an absolutely elegant plan?"
-Francis Collins: Director, National Human Genome Research Institute.
"Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings. Our own bodies are riddled with quirks that no competent engineer would have planned but that disclose a history of trial-and-error tinkering: a retina installed backward, a seminal duct that hooks over the ureter like a garden hose snagged on a tree, goose bumps that uselessly try to warm us by fluffing up long-gone fur. The theory of natural selection explains life as we find it, with all its quirks and tragedies."
-Steven Pinker: Psychology professor, Harvard University
I believe that in a hundred years people will not look at evolution as a speculative theory, but rather the single most important idea ever conceived used to make sense of how God created the world around us.
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