The question of evolution is not simply one of existence, of why we are here; rather, it is the startling fact that, after 13.8 billion years, we are here—and we know we are here! Amazingly, a Gallup poll on June 2, 2014, showed that 42 percent of the American population still believe that God created humans in their present form at one time within the last ten thousand years.1 This inability to modify core religious beliefs according to what we now know about ourselves, such as the doctrine of creation, goes hand in hand with the power of religious myth to form a coherent picture of the world
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