Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Week 4 Post 7-

In this audio read book, the author writes about how Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection and reductionism disproves many of the world’s previous ideals about life. He states that it is the single best idea that anyone has ever had. He calls it dangerous because as he writes, “it burns, like any misconceptions we have about nature, like a universal acid, special creation is burn away, the cosmic pyramid of God, mind, design, order, is annihilated.” He writes that it takes the God out of life, and that it proves that there is not God, but also says that there can be design without a creator and that people get it wrong when they say that there must be a creator to have design. To the author science proves this fact.
He states that “Darwin’s Dangerous Idea,” is still making its way around the world and that it is going to take some time to be fully accepted as truth just like it took centuries for people to accept Copernicus’ Heliocentric Model. He asks whether or not we should be scared of this idea and he answers with an astounding no. He feels we just need to grow up and see the underlying beauty of it. Dennett the author writes that Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection is really a beautiful thing that we need to embrace rather than be scared of. He feels we need to evolve and learn to adapt to the truth it reveals.