How I Learned to Trust Science

I have a confession to make: I’m a 30-year-old man, but until a few years ago, I had no real understanding of the theory of evolution.

Ah, it feels good to get that off my chest.

I’m sure I must have been taught evolution in school, but I have almost no memory of those lessons. I suspect that I intentionally didn’t pay attention.

Why? Because I was a Christian. And Christians don’t believe in that kind of thing (or so I was told).

If you had asked me as a teenager, I would have told you that evolution was the idea that humans evolved from monkeys, that there was something about peppered moths from London, that Charles Darwin invented it, and most crucially, that it was unproven. There was a mysterious missing link that nobody could find, and the idea that fish just grew legs one day and started wandering about on the land seemed ridiculous.

Read the Medium story why Jon Headley - “How I Learned to Trust Science.”