Paul Krugman | Facts That Strain Personal Incredulity

(Image: CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate) Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "Somewhere in his writings Richard Dawkins, the British evolutionary biologist, talks about anti-evolution types who argue from personal incredulity - they say, 'I just can't believe that chance could create something as complex as an eye,' and think that they have scored an important point. All they've actually done, of course, is rehash their prejudices. (Simulations show, by the way, that chance plus selection can indeed create an eye, in a relatively short time as evolutionary history goes.) I'm getting the same kind of thing a lot on issues macroeconomic." Read the Article