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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design

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“Everyone has a passion. Something they love to do or express,  something that excites them, inspires them, or gives their life meaning. To others, what someone does or says may seem boring, exhausting, strange, or even a waste of time or money simply because they don’t understand its appeal or appreciate what it means to that person. Often, judgment comes from a lack of understanding. It’s easy to dismiss what we don’t understand, but every passion deserves respect. We should choose to learn to respect and celebrate others passions without being judgmental.”

“St Paul's cathedral stands like a cornered beast on Ludgate hill, taking deep breaths above the smoke.  The fire has made terrifying progress in the night and is closing in on the ancient monument from three directions.  Built of massive stones, the cathedral is held to be invincible, but suddenly Pegge sees what the flames covet: the two hundred and fifty feet of scaffolding erected around the broken tower.  Once the flames have a foothold on the wooden scaffolds,, they can jump to the lead roof, and once the timbers burn and the vaulting cracks, the cathedral will be toppled by its own mass, a royal bear brought down by common dogs.”

“Pause, reflect, admire, take heed of your ways—so these ancient tablets are always advising and exhorting us. One leaves the church marveling at the spacious days when unknown citizens could occupy so much room with their bones and confidently request so much attention for their virtues when we—behold how we jostle and skip and circumvent each other in the street, how sharply we cut corners, how nimbly we skip beneath motor cars. The mere process of keeping alive needs all our energy. We have no time, we were about to say, to think about life or death either, when suddenly we run against the enormous walls of St. Paul’s.”