"Tell me a creation story more wondrous than that of a living cell forged from the residue of exploding stars. Tell me a story of transformation more magical than that of a fish hauling out onto land and becoming amphibian, or a reptile taking to the air and becoming bird, or a mammal slipping back into the sea and becoming whale. Surely this science-based culture of all cultures can find meaning and cause for celebration in its very own cosmic creation story."
-- Connie Barlow
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Magical, wondrous, maybe. But how do those fit with logical?
Those wondrous things aren’t just logical, they are fact and should be celebrated instead of denigrated as nonsense by fundamentalists and other truth deniers.
I don't know why it's so easily acceptable that an animal can become another, but so difficult to understand that someone created each of those animals already as they are.
Kelsie, You are right. It is much easier for the average peron to imagine that every animal/thing was created as a finished product by a Creator. That is of course what most everyone thought for thousands of years. We see a potter make a pot and imagine there is a giant powerful potter above the clouds that made the world. But Darwin’s incredible insight and all the evidence gathered since then shows this is not true. There is no such thing as the quintessential
rabbit, rose or anything else. Everything is in a stage of evolving from one form to another. Dawkins’ new book is an easy read that explains this.
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