As far as I know, "mental illness" encompasses a pretty wide range of issues. Are people who are diagnosed with mental illness exclusively or primarily describing religious delusions? I'd never heard of that. The old stereotype of the deluded mental patient was that he thought he was Napoleon, not John the Baptist.
"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
