Dawkins: The Ignorance of Creationists is Disgraceful

Added: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]I think perhaps the single most convincing fact observation that you could point to would be the um the pattern of resemblances that you see when you compare the genes using modern DNA techniques actually looking at the the letterto-let correspondences between genes. compare the genes of any pair of animals you like. Uh pair of animals, pair of plants, and then plot out the resemblances and they fall on a perfect hierarchy, a perfect family tree. And the only alternative to it being a family tree is that the intelligent designer deliberately set out to deceive us in the most underhand and devious manner. Um, more moreover, the same thing works with with every gene you do separately and even pseudo genes that don't do anything but are vestigial relics of genes that once that once did something. I find it extremely hard to imagine how any creationist who actually bother to listen to that could possibly doubt the fact of evolution. But they don't listen. I mean this your your question is a is a perfectly good question but it's not it's not really relevant because what they do is simply stick their fingers in their ear and say la they know what's true because it's in the holy book and that that even I mean the most extreme case is the geologist Kurt Weise who has a PhD in geology from Harvard and said, "If all the evidence in the universe pointed towards an old earth, I would be the first to admit it, but I would still be a young earth creationist because that is what holy scripture teaches me." You cannot argue with with with a with a with a mind like that. A mind like that, it seems to me, is well, a disgrace to the human species.