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Darwin Matters Because Evolution Matters. Evolution Matters Because Science Matters. Science Matters Because It Is The Preeminent Story Of Our Age, An Epic Saga About Who We Are, Where We Came From And Where We Are Going.

People Have A Hard Time Accepting Free-market Economics For The Same Reason They Have A Hard Time Accepting Evolution: It Is Counterintuitive. Life Looks Intelligently Designed, So Our Natural Inclination Is To Infer That There Must Be An Intelligent Designer--a God. Similarly, The Economy Looks Designed, So Our Natural Inclination Is To Infer That We Need A Designer--a Government. In Fact, Emergence And Complexity Theory Explains How The Principles Of Self-organization And Emergence Cause Complex Systems To Arise From Simple Systems Without A Top-down Designer.

Creationists Have Also Changed Their Name ... To Intelligent Design Theorists Who Study 'irreducible Complexity' And The 'abrupt Appearance' Of Life-yet More Jargon For 'god Did It.' ... Notice That They Have No Interest In Replacing Evolution With Native American Creation Myths Or Including The Code Of Hammarabi Alongside The Posting Of The Ten Commandments In Public Schools.

Believing That The Rustle In The Grass Is A Dangerous Predator When It Is Only The Wind Does Not Cost Much, But Believing That A Dangerous Predator Is The Wind May Cost An Animal Its Life.

The Fate Of The Paranormal Is To Become The Normal As Our Horizons Of Understanding Expand.