I truly detest people who try to tell me I'm ignorant, but in the attempt show, seemingly effortlessly, that in reality their ignorance is what is being paraded, for all to see.

Today's comments, from someone who shall remain nameless, just on the assumption that he has escaped from a psychiatric unit and may be acting with diminished responsibility, are as follows:

1. And if you wanna take on Creation do your homework... Darwin disproved his own theory when he couldn't explain the development of the EYE!

2. And I am not even a supporter of The Christian Faith as it stands. What does that tell you?

This was such a simple thing to deal with that I'll just show you my response in full:

It tells me you're an idiot who has not even looked into what you are talking about. That bullshit about the eye is just ignorance - you've read the standard propaganda quote and failed to read two sentences further. I'm going to educate you before I block you. Here comes the passage you're talking about...

"To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree."

The above is where your knowledge ends, but someone who has READ THE BOOK would know that Darwin continues...

"When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei (translation: The voice of the people is the voice of God), as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science. Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certainly the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case; and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated; but I may remark that, as some of the lowest organisms in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility."

I finished with this comment:

You are a moron. All you had to do was look up that passage in 'On the Origin of Species' and you'd have known that Darwin himself provided the reply to your stupid comment. Chapter 6 is called 'Difficulties of the Theory'. The passage I gave you begins a section called 'Organs of extreme perfection and complication' in which Darwin eloquently answers every point you will EVER make, 150 years before you puked them out.

Get an education - read a fucking book, you ignoramus.

What I didn't mention was that this is the very chapter I am currently recording so that I can provide it as an MP3 audio file (if you recall, I plan to record the entire book). I'll be done with that chapter very shortly - I recorded all of the above text only a few days ago, so this very subject is completely fresh in my mind.

Why are religious people so ignorant of the things they seek to discredit? All the atheists I know have read the Bible, at least those who speak out against its teachings. We know the source material, so we know what we are talking about. And yet it seems that none of the people who reject evolution have read anything about it other than one or two quotes, cut short in the way I demonstrate above, which anyone, anyone at all, would know are part of a larger argument and which are answered by Darwin so easily. Darwin himself presented these obstacles to acceptance of his theory... and then proceeeded to provided the answers to each and every one of them.

People who have not read 'On the Origin of Species' should not try to discredit evolution. If they do, they will just show their ignorance. You don't have to read the book to understand evolution, but you do have to read it if you want to try to tear it down. The trouble is, anyone who has read it and understood it will be unable to do so. That is, if they really do understand it in the first place.

If ignorance is bliss, I truly hope never to have a moment's bliss in my whole life, because I don't ever want to be as stupid as the people who send me comments such as the one which led to this article.