Jubal

I have serious doubts of this sometimes, they can't really be that stupid. I just can't wrap my mind around it...it's impossible!

Kevin Dorner

I'm sure that many do and many don't...

If poorly presented or supported, or presented in a denigrating way, the idea that something as complex as a human being can arise over time without being designed every step of the way seems silly, because we live in human-designed settings and are used to associating order with conscious design.

There are many things now taken for granted that were once ridiculed as preposterous. Continental drift, airplanes, the roughly spherical earth, the heliocentric solar system, the germ theory of disease, the circulation of the blood with the heart as a central pump... these are a few ideas that were ridiculed when first proposed. For example: Martin Luther's comment about Copernicus' heliocentric solar system that "this fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy" and Galileo's subsequent arrest by the Catholic church, William Harvey (who proposed the circulation of the blood) being nicknamed "Circulator" which at the time was a slang term for the snake-oil quack doctors who "circulated" through country fairs and villages peddling their often harmful wares.

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