Illusions..........................

For God is by its nature a name of mystery, and nobody ever supposed that man could imaging how a world was created any more than he could create one.  But evolution is really mistaken for explanation.  It has the fatal quality of leaving on many minds the impression that they do understand it and everything else;  just as many of them live under a sort of illusion that they have read the Origin of Species.
     But this notion of something smooth and slow, like the ascent of a slope, is a great part of the illusion.  It is an illogicality as well as an illusion;  for slowness has really nothing to do with the question.  An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves.   For a man who does not believe in a miracle, a slow miracle would be just as incredible as a swift one.
-G. K. Chesterton,  as excerpted from The Everlasting Man