If you just google "evolution of the eye" you get several sites and videos explaining how it happened. It's not a mystery. It gets chosen as an example due to the quote-mine of Darwin's comment about the evolution of the eye.
Similarly, google "reptile mammal transition" and you'll see articles and videos and images explaining it from various angles and showing a number of different ways in which the evolution of mammals has been studied and what has been learned.
The information is out there, there is no excuse for not having at least a basic understanding of evolution.
If theists are reduced to "the evidence supports the concept of God" then perhaps the view that "God probably doesn't exist" has merit. It seems that God has already been dismissed as anything more than a concept. I guess that's progress...
Similarly, google "reptile mammal transition" and you'll see articles and videos and images explaining it from various angles and showing a number of different ways in which the evolution of mammals has been studied and what has been learned.
The information is out there, there is no excuse for not having at least a basic understanding of evolution.
If theists are reduced to "the evidence supports the concept of God" then perhaps the view that "God probably doesn't exist" has merit. It seems that God has already been dismissed as anything more than a concept. I guess that's progress...
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
