Why yes, I do believe in Evolution!!
Me? A trained scientist? No, not me. I am just a regular guy who is pretty bright and has read incessantly since I was a little kid. Space and Astronomy were a lamp to my mothy self. Especially since the space program was going to the Moon(Dated myself there). Geology, Anthropology, Archeology, Paleontology all got my attention at some point. I did take a few classes in college in some of these fields but I am not close to being trained in science.
What all that reading did though, was to get me to look at things. Analytically and with great interest. If one thing can be said about these disciplines and the people who pursue them is that they must be curious to succeed.
So, after reading indiscriminately about loads of different fields I looked around. Looked at the land. Looked at the night sky. Looked at animals, looked at mountains, hills and gullies, looked at the sand that was under my home, beach sand for goodness sake, even though I lived 250 miles inland. The little fossils of shells that I would see in limestone outcroppings at the lake and the petrified wood that my grandma kept in her flower bed all led me to believe that the earth was ancient and that things have come and gone and sometimes been preserved. My wide wondering child’s eyes looked at stars and planets and the Great Nebula of Orion and saw distances and caused me to ponder the speed of light and again, the ancientness and vastness of the Universe.
Things that I did not get to see myself I read about. Vulcanology!! Wow. The books and the diagrams of Volcanoes made it clear to me that the Earth was a dynamic and changing place. Plate tectonics? Look at the globe! It's hard to miss the fact that you can sort of squish all the continents together mentally and they will fit nicely.
And those bones. Bones so enormous and so decidedly different from anything that I could see in my own world. Buried and turned to stone...like that petrified wood in Grandma's yard. Bit by bit over a time span hard to imagine.
Most of the things I am describing came before High School science class. Before I had studied Evolution. Sure, I had seen the term and had some concept of what it was about but I was unfamiliar with the details. We studied Lamarck first. Then Evolution. Straight from Sunday school on Sunday to Science class fifth period on Monday and it was obvious to me that Darwin had theorized something that could elegantly and simply tie together an ancient world's worth of odd and amazing things. Best of all, it agreed with what I had observed. With my own eyes.
What all that reading did though, was to get me to look at things. Analytically and with great interest. If one thing can be said about these disciplines and the people who pursue them is that they must be curious to succeed.
So, after reading indiscriminately about loads of different fields I looked around. Looked at the land. Looked at the night sky. Looked at animals, looked at mountains, hills and gullies, looked at the sand that was under my home, beach sand for goodness sake, even though I lived 250 miles inland. The little fossils of shells that I would see in limestone outcroppings at the lake and the petrified wood that my grandma kept in her flower bed all led me to believe that the earth was ancient and that things have come and gone and sometimes been preserved. My wide wondering child’s eyes looked at stars and planets and the Great Nebula of Orion and saw distances and caused me to ponder the speed of light and again, the ancientness and vastness of the Universe.
Things that I did not get to see myself I read about. Vulcanology!! Wow. The books and the diagrams of Volcanoes made it clear to me that the Earth was a dynamic and changing place. Plate tectonics? Look at the globe! It's hard to miss the fact that you can sort of squish all the continents together mentally and they will fit nicely.
And those bones. Bones so enormous and so decidedly different from anything that I could see in my own world. Buried and turned to stone...like that petrified wood in Grandma's yard. Bit by bit over a time span hard to imagine.
Most of the things I am describing came before High School science class. Before I had studied Evolution. Sure, I had seen the term and had some concept of what it was about but I was unfamiliar with the details. We studied Lamarck first. Then Evolution. Straight from Sunday school on Sunday to Science class fifth period on Monday and it was obvious to me that Darwin had theorized something that could elegantly and simply tie together an ancient world's worth of odd and amazing things. Best of all, it agreed with what I had observed. With my own eyes.
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