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12/28/2008: "Dawkins"

If I don't understand Quantum Mechanics or Relativity
the last thing I should reasonably expect to be able to do
is get away with criticizing it as though my opinion had
as much weight as that of a person who spent a professional
lifetime studying it. Yet, alone amongst the sciences,
the theory of evolution is considered fair game for criticism
by people of any level of ignorance.

In the middle ages at least people had an excuse for such ignorance.
In this age of high technology and scientific breakthoughs, the ingrained,
bigoted and ill-thought out repostes to evolution can only be described
as willful ignorance. And that's the worst kind.