[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent. - Richard Dawkins

We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.* 12

Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.