Climbing
Mount Improbable – Richard Dawkins (1996)
This book seeks to do something that
seems near impossible, to show the lie behind “intelligent design” and to
provide the actual science behind the theory of natural selection and the
evolution of life. So many people have a
vested interest in keeping humans ignorant and subservient. Part of that is
making sure that humans never forget that they are here on the whim of an
omniscient creator. Because so many
adhere to this idea, they seek to poke holes in the theory of natural selection
anytime they can. They find one
unexplained object/animal part and use it to try and destroy all that
biologists, chemists, botanists and other life scientists have discovered and
understood about the natural world around us.
Richard Dawkins spends this book showing how what seems to us to be
physically impossible, doable only by a supernatural entity of some sort, is
purely a result of our ignorance about how nature works.
One of the basic misconceptions that
opponents of natural selection have is their idea of time scales. A human life is lucky to last 100 years. Most countries last barely 200 years, if
that. Human written history is barely
7,000-8,000 years old. Our current
species Homo sapiens sapiens, has trod upon the Earth for around 100,000
years. Homo sapiens in some form has
been around for over 500,000 years. Most
of the dinosaurs died out about 65.5 million years ago. That is an insane number of years. Even that is a tiny speck of sand when compared
to the vast beach of time. Life on Earth
was solely composed of single-celled organisms for over 2.5 BILLION years. BILLION!
It’s an inconceivable amount of time.
When people, ignorant AF and proud of it, state that there is no
way natural selection could end up with a structure as complex as an eye, they
betray their ignorance of time, not to mention biology.
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| These losers would have us remain scared of the monsters that live in our nostrils! |
There are many types of “eyes” in
the animal kingdom. From individual
cells that detect photons, allowing a creature in the ocean to know what
direction is up (sunlight) and what is down (darkness), to eyes composed of a
patch of skin containing multiple sensor cells, able to detect shadowy shapes,
to compound eyes composed of dozens of individual lenses, to the magnificent
eye of an eagle, able to see miles away with telescopic vision, every type of
eye exists on the Earth currently. All
are a result of natural selection over millions and billions of years. Those who wish to refute this are willfully
ignorant and therefore completely discredited in their worries.
The sad part is that our educational
system does not provide these kinds of answers to our children, leaving whole
generations ignorant, knowing just enough to understand very little except the
vague, uneducated tripe they are fed by evangelists who believe the world was
created 6,000 years ago and that all fossils are tricks planted by “god” to
fool and test us stupid humans. “A
little education is a dangerous thing,” is a quote I read a long time ago and
did not fully understand until I began to think about why people hold on to
ignorance instead of seeking more and more knowledge. Knowing just a little fools people into
thinking they know enough to pass judgment.
I
support Mr. Dawkins in his fight against the happily ignorant, who choose to
force their ignorance upon the rest of us.
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