P. Kirby’s Reviews > The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution > Status Update

Eyes and nerves, sperm tubes, sinuses and backs are poorly designed from the point of view of individual welfare, but the imperfections make perfect sense in the light of evolution.

Plate tectonics...

"...the spread of secondary and latterly of tertiary education has created a large population of people, often with well-developed literary and scholarly tastes, who have been educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought." ~Peter Medawar

Hah. Interesting how creationists' so-call credentials are unscientific degrees like law.

"...complicated fiddling with the laws of physics...to make all the clocks agree that the Earth is 6,000 years old and not 4.6 billion! Given that the sole motive for such fiddling is the desire to uphold the origin myth of a particular set of Bronze Age desert tribesmen, it is surprising to say the least, that anyone is fooled by it."

"In South America, capybaras were deemed to be honorary fish for the purposes of Catholic dietary laws on Fridays, presumably because they live in water...They must think God is awfully easily fooled."

This book is totally preaching to the choir (me), which is why it's been sitting on my Kindle for so long.