True Dirt

unintelligible design

Every day I nose around my garden I see evidence of the random beauty of nature. Darwin must also have felt this awe in the presence of the mighty kingdoms of Flora and Fauna. Human intelligence is so limited that we try to impose our own thinking structure on everything non-human around us. It is, apparently, difficult for us to imagine an order that is not in our mental image. To insist that Nature must have been imagined by an intelligent being is a thinly disguised argument for the universal dominance of human-like intelligence. The Greeks had a name for this sort of thinking. The word is hybris (hubris to us). Insolence to the gods, punishable with blindness. Darwin opened his eyes to the small world and found the key to Nature's genius.