Excellent Book

I just finished “The Greatest Show on Earth” by Richard Dawkins. It was a brilliant, tight, and crystal clear summary of the major scientific evidence in favor of the theory of evolution. It was entertaining and fascinating just as any book would be that aimed to describe the way in which ALL life on Earth developed. I enthusiastically recommend it to anyone interested in ideas and is curious about the biggest discovery in the history of all of the world. Seriously, I would think even vehement creationists would read it if only for the intellectual challenge of understating the theory, because it really is a beautiful theory.
It starts off with a very funny analogy. Dawkins compares his present predicament with that of a professor of Roman history. The professor is eager to talk about the various innovations of the Romans, their literature, art and engineering. He wants to talk about their beautiful language and complicated societies and history of their military and political dominance. Instead though, he finds that a very large group of people (politically and financially backed) come to his class and disrupt it by asking questions like “How can you be sure the Romans even existed?” He is forced to abandon his class and talk about the evidence for the past existence of the Romans. He says that although we cannot see Romans now, the evidence for them is overwhelming. The people in back disagree and think there are various other explanations for the pottery left behind in the ground. The romantic languages are similar only through coincidence and the roads left behind that crisscrossed Europe were always there. Sadly, the Professor agrees to write a book about why he is convinced Romans existed.
So there you have it. It’s a great book. I really and truly do not understand why some people are so passionately against this area of science. For thousands of years most religions have hinted at a vast inter connectivity between all things. Isn’t it amazing that it is true?