Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Was Darwin Wrong?


http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0411/feature1/fulltext.html

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0411/feature1/fulltext.html

Above is the link for and abstract of the article and another for the full text article. I was really happy to see this because I'm a lady most interested in facts, in history and in science (As well as art, but I tend to be more interested in the technical, graphic, or representational aspects of art. Which is why I'm an illustration student and not a fine artist.)
My personal opinion is that the knowledge that we have gained from questioning beliefs like the traditional creation story taught in the Bible has helped us to better understand our world and how it works. There's really no mysticism about it, just more stuff that we don't know now, but may eventually find out. Rejecting this knowledge is putting us as human beings back to a time where we didn't understand our world or didn't care to. Knowledge is power, and we have the power now to find out more about ourselves as a species and about the Earth and our universe on a broader scale. Why do we hide from that instead of embracing the beautifully crafted beings that we are living in this beautifully crafted Universe? Crafted by a god or by forces of nature, that I can not say and will not comment on.
Of course Darwin was wrong about some things (one of which being that men are genetically superior to women, which as a woman aware of her own intelligence I find that alarming), but his best idea as it happens is one where there is overwhelming evidence to vouch for it's correctness.
Please read if you have the time, I thought it was really interesting.

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