If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worse than ignorant, they are deluded to the point of perversity. They are denying not only the facts of biology but those of physics, geology, cosmology, archaeology, history and chemistry as well. Richard Dawkins
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If the history-deniers who doubt the fact of evolution are ignorant of biology, those who think the world began less than ten thousand years ago are worse than ignorant, they are deluded to the point of perversity. They are denying not only the facts of biology but those of physics, geology, cosmology, archaeology, history and chemistry as well. What these people need to realize is that there is no absolute truth. All truth has its limitations.

If we believe that there is a God and if we believe that He created the universe, then we must also believe that He created what we call nature. All things come from nature and all things go back to nature. We know about some of this because we have been studying it for a very long time.

If we continue to study it and learn more about it, then we will be able to see more clearly just how everything fits together in a beautiful pattern.

Source: The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence For Evolution

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