03 December 2008

Inexcusably ignorant

"The evidence of evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy (Darwin's chief sources), but from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences. To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant -- inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write. Doubts about the power of Darwin's idea of natural selection to explain this evolutionary process are still intellectually respectable, however, although the burden of proof for such skepticism has become immense."

-- Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea (1995)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Try the middle path explanation.

d;-)

Chuang Shyue Chou said...

Dalai Lama?

Anonymous said...

Not Dalai Lama per se but perhaps the teaching of Buddha as the answers be there.

d;-)

Anonymous said...

D'oh! ... " the answers might be there."

d;-)

Chuang Shyue Chou said...

Answers from Buddha? Hmm..