You’d think Darwin created the world all by himself with a few test-tubes, the amount of attention he’s getting. I’m not denying he’s a brill biologist, but there’s more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in his theory.
And the discussion about science and religion that surrounds him is just bo-oring. No religious believer intelligent enough to get air-time disagrees with evolution (or does Anne Atkins?), so what happens is this. Atheists strongly imply that his theory, which is the best thing in human history, strongly implies atheism. Christians queue up to say how keen they are about the tree-of-life stuff, and to point out that the Bearded One was an agnostic but not an atheist.
That’s it – again and again.
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