Daniel Dennet's quote seems very appropriate here:
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.
Creationism is wrong; totally, utterly, and absolutely wrong. I would go further. There are degrees of being wrong. The creationists are at the bottom of the scale. They pull every trick in the book to justify their position. Indeed, at times they verge right over into the downright dishonest. Scientific Creationism in not just wrong, it is ludicrously implausible. It is a grotesque parody of human thought, and a downright misuse of human intelligence. In short, to the believer, it is an insult to God. ~ Michael Ruse
Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanour. ~ Sigmund Freud
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It's hardly surprising to hear an Islamic advocate talking such nonsense. In a recent survey Turkey was ranked bottom of major industrialised nations whose people believed in evolution. America, to it's shame, was second from bottom with only 40% of people believing in evolution and a pathetic 30% of those held a view of evolution that is completely anti-Darwinian in that they believed God had some sort of hand in evolution.
This level of stupidity is sadly so common.
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