[fizziwig]

"Among scientists, "Darwinism" is no more controversial than Euclidism or Copernicism or Pasteurism"

So they have resolved the conflict between gradualism (Darwin's concept) and punctuated equilibrium (Gould's theory)?

[the final gentleman]

Words are silly things, but they have survival value.

We humans are factory wired to think in terms of a linear progression through time. That is, our minds are wired to process the interactions between two events that give birth to subsequent events.

So... being so wired, we have little choice; we must believe in evolution.

Unfortunately we humans can't conceptualize how "something" can come into existence from "nothing".
So, to our credit, we invented religion.

AND BOTH OBSERVATIONS ARE TRUE