I take it Toni that Amphistium wasn't one of the fish that grew legs, came out of the water but went back in because it wasn 't evolved enough. My maths might not be good but your rational is stupidity to the max. I suggest you read Romans 1 to see where your stupidity comes from.

Agree, Toni, and I'd add Carl Johansson, pioneer metrologist and M. de Vernier who invented the scale system used on Vernier callipers, micrometers and other instruments.

Without their work, particularly that of Johansson, modern engineering precision would have been impossible.

Paul,

Pity that you didn't have the luck to attend a Marist school as I had.
There we were taught to question everything and a Protestant, and a Presbyterian at that, was held up to us as an example of a Christian man who stuck to his principles.

This was Eric Liddell, who was so well portrayed in "Chariots of Fire" and "....In his last letter to his wife, written on the day he died, Liddell wrote of suffering a nervous breakdown due to overwork. He actually had an inoperable brain tumour; overwork and malnourishment may have hastened his death. Liddell died on 21 February 1945, five months before liberation [he was in a Japanese internment camp]. Langdon Gilkey later wrote, "The entire camp, especially its youth, was stunned for days, so great was the vacuum that Eric's death had left." According to a fellow missionary, Liddell's last words were, "It's complete surrender", in reference to how he had given his life to God."

Is Mise I did have such "luck" some years later, and in some cases with the "brothers" compared to the "sisters" it was a matter of out of the fat and into the fire.
A story: In 2nd year high school the 'Cadet Unit' run by a "brother" (who later proved to be a pedophile), came around looking for "volunteers". I, being a pacifists, and one other declined brothers generous invitation to join his kids army. Well the bloke made my life hell from there on in with physical assaults through caneings and mental torture, bailed me up against a wall once, and accused me of being a "Nancy Boy". This degenerate was ably assisted by other religious zealots of the brotherhood.
I am glad you attended a fine Marist School where you were taught to question everything and a Protestant, and a Presbyterian at that, was held up to us as an example of a Christian man who stuck to his principles. Can't say the say for many Marist Brothers I met, but we all have different experiences in life.