Holly Dunsworth on NPR
One of our very good friends, Holly Dunsworth, is going to be on National Public Radio (NPR) for “This I Believe” this coming weekend as a part of “Weekend Edition.” You can read her essay here. An excerpt:
I believe in evolution. It’s easy. It’s my life. I’m a paleoanthropologist. I study fossils of humans, apes, and monkeys and I teach college students about their place in nature.
Of course I believe in evolution.
But why then do I answer “no” when you ask me if I “believe in evolution”? Because if you have to ask me if I believe in evolution, than to you evolution is controversial and something to believe in as opposed to God. I answer “no” because I want to separate evolution from religion, from paralleling it with a belief in a deity.
No one has ever asked me if I believe in gravity or electricity. How absurd.