Just the Gaps, Please
Richard Dawkins responds to the Creationist foolishness in, Creationism: God's gift to the ignorant.
Best paragraph:
The creationists' fondness for "gaps" in the fossil record is a metaphor for their love of gaps in knowledge generally. Gaps, by default, are filled by God. You don’t know how the nerve impulse works? Good! You don’t understand how memories are laid down in the brain? Excellent! Is photosynthesis a bafflingly complex process? Wonderful! Please don't go to work on the problem, just give up, and appeal to God. Dear scientist, don't work on your mysteries. Bring us your mysteries for we can use them. Don’t squander precious ignorance by researching it away. Ignorance is God’s gift to Kansas.
It is a bit rough, but accurate: Creationists like to look for any chink in the armor to try to "disprove" evolution while missing the larger point of evolution.
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