The Earth Has Grown A Nervous System,

A Child Raised On A Desert Island, Alone, Without Social Interaction, Without Language, And Thus Lacking Empathy, Is Still A Sentient Being.

Atheism, A Term Which Will, I'm Sure, Eventually Become As Unnecessary As Round-earthism.

The Traditional View Of Purpose Says It Comes From On High, From God, From The Creator. Darwin's Idea Of Natural Selection Makes People Uncomfortable Because It Reverses The Direction Of Tradition. Whereas People Used To Think Of Meaning Coming From On High And Being Ordained From The Top Down, Now We Have Darwin Saying, "no, All Of This Design Can Happen, All Of This Purpose Can Emerge From The Bottom Up Without Any Direction At All."

Moreover, The Eye Contains A Big Flaw: The Retina Is Inside Out. Why Would An Almighty Designer Do Such A Thing? No Intelligent Designer, .. Would Put Such A Clumsy Arrangement In A Camcorder, And This Is Just One Of The Hundreds Of Accidents Frozen In Evolutionary History That Confirm The Mindlessness Of The Historical Process.

The Theoretical Fruits Of Deliberate Oversimplification Through Idealization Are Not To Be Denied... Reality In All Its Messy Particularity Is Too Complicated To Theorize About, Taken Straight. The Issue Is, Rather (since Every Idealization Is A Strategic Choice), Which Idealizations Might Really Shed Some Light... Which Will Just Land Us... Diverting Fairy Tales.