Involutions
This excellent introduction should help anyone struggling with the concept of evolution and how it works. It seems extraordinary to me that there can be literate people who do not know this stuff, but they abound. I also like this. It really picks out the key points: evolution happens to populations not individuals, it is not progressive, it is the change in alleles that counts -- not whether you look more or less like a monkey, it is aimless.
Evolution makes human beings shatteringly small. It removes us from our pedestal as God's chosen organisms and makes us just another monkey. (I think it was Stephen Jay Gould who pointed out that the big church-science clashes were all about how science has minimised man's importance.) But that is what we are. Ultimately I do believe that accepting evolution and its consequences makes it nearly impossible to believe that God created man as anything special. You could still believe he made a universe for man to happen in, but that happening was itself nothing special. You are nothing special. But you can still love and be loved. Now, that is an amazing, curious thing.
posted by Dr Zen @ 3:12 am
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