Why America does not believe in Darwin

All the lush life on Earth evolved from simpler forms of life over billions of years. It is a fact that no longer allows it to be about discussing the level of reason. If you suspect that human beings evolved from earlier species, can also suspect that the Sun is a star.

Grant that the sun does not look like an ordinary star, but we know that it is a star that is located relatively close to Earth. Imagine the possible embarrassment if your faith was based on the assumption that the sun is not a star.

Imagine millions of Christians in the United States who spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year to come to fight godless astronomers and astrophysicists in the matter. Imagine how they work passionately to push through his unfounded remarks about the sun in our nation's schools. This is exactly the situation we now have about evolution.

Polls show that more than 50 percent of Americans believe that the entire universe was created 6000 years ago, that dinosaurs lived two by two on Noah's ark, and that the first members of our species were produced from the mud and the mud of the divine, in the garden with a snake that talks. For almost 250 years creationist movement in America is going through various stages, and his latest attempt to introduce so-called school. the theory of intelligent design as a counterpart to the theory of evolution. Concerned about the millions of Americans everyday blunting, author Sam Harris, author of bestseller "The End of The Faith", he turned to fellow book "Letter to a Christian Nation. " Written in the form of letters to American Christians, the book is intended for people of all faiths and worldviews.

Christians who doubt the truth of evolution, they tend to say things like "evolution is a theory, not fact. " Such statements reflect a serious misunderstanding of the sense in which the word "theory" is used in scientific debates. In science, facts must be explained in relation to other facts.

These broader models to explain the "theory ". Theories make predictions and, in principle, can be examined. The phrase "theory of evolution" does not mean that evolution is a fact. One can speak of a "bud theory of disease" or the "theory of gravity, without casting doubt on the disease or gravity as a natural fact.