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What Can Be More Soul Shaking Than Peering Through A 100-inch Telescope At A Distant Galaxy, Holding A 100-million-year-old Fossil Or A 500,000-year-old Stone Tool In One's Hand, Standing Before The Immense Chasm Of Space And Time That Is The Grand Canyon, Or Listening To A Scientist Who Gazed Upon The Face Of The Universe's Creation And Did Not Blink?

Science Is Not The Affirmation Of A Set Of Beliefs But A Process Of Inquiry Aimed At Building A Testable Body Of Knowledge Constantly Open To Rejection Or Confirmation. In Science, Knowledge Is Fluid And Certainty Fleeting. That Is At The Heart Of Its Limitations. It Is Also Its Greatest Strength.

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.

We Do Not Just Blindly Concede Control To Authorities; Instead We Follow The Cues Provided By Our Moral Communities On How Best To Behave.

Accepting Evolution Does Not Force Us To Jettison Our Morals And Ethics, And Rejecting Evolution Does Not Ensure Their Constancy.