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Feb. 7, 2010 I was raised as a Catholic, went to Catholic school for some years and went to church regularly with my parents. I accepted it all at face value for a good long while, but one day, when I was 13 or 14, while my parents and I were attending mass, as the priest was delivering his sermon, I understood all at once that Catholic teachings are false and that the priest was talking a lot of nonsense. I thought this was a great discovery, and, when we returned home, I related my new insights to my parents proudly. They were very angry and ordered me not to talk along those lines in the future. So I didn’t mention it again till I was about 18. I was in the eighth grade at that time, and I don’t recall having heard about evolution. But my new insights had nothing to do with evolution. I didn’t need a course in biology to understand that Noah did not go floating about in a world flood, Moses did not open the Red Sea and Jesus did not descend into Hell. All I needed was the common sense that any 13-year-old child ought to have. I allowed for the possibility that there was a supreme being of some kind, just not the kind described in the Bible. My opinion at that time was that anyone who said he was a Christian was either naïve or hypocritical. I assumed that many people conformed in order to get along with their friends and families. When I was about 17, I first started hearing about evolution, and had several discussions on the topic with friends, though I didn’t read anything on the subject at the time. I remember how shocked I was that the theory of evolution was enunciated only in the 19th century. To me it seemed so obvious that I was amazed that the ancients didn’t know about it. I would have thought that the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans had known all about it. I recognized also that the almost certain correctness of the theory of evolution was not inconsistent with the existence of a supreme being of some kind. I had already ruled out the possibility that the Bible was a dependable source of information on such things, so I didn’t even think of comparing evolution with Christian doctrine. However, with a different description, some kind of God could possibly have existed, I thought. I don’t even believe that any more, though I wouldn’t go so far as to say that I know so. Every little thing in the universe is autonomous, so to speak. When a polar bear is drifting around on an ice floe, or a lone horse is galloping about in the field, there’s nobody in Heaven watching. There’s no evidence that shows that God is keeping a watchful eye on things here below. In fact, the evidence is just the opposite. If there is a benevolent God, why would we have had World War I and World War II. It just doesn’t make sense. Over the years, though I’ve never taken a course in biology, I’ve read several college textbooks on botany, zoology, anatomy and genetics, not because I’m trying to prove anything, but because I enjoy reading textbooks. I even read Darwin. But my basic opinion is the same as it was when I was a teen-ager. The Bible is false and the theory of evolution is obviously true, but those facts have nothing to do with each other. I can’t understand why people try to make it into some sort of Armageddon being fought. ------------ About the author Thomas Keyes: I have written two books: A SOJOURN IN ASIA (non-fiction) and A TALE OF UNG (fiction), neither published so far. I have studied languages for years and traveled extensively on five continents. Visit my website here. Email: udikeyes@yahoo.com Comment on this article here! 
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