text: Darwin has been shown, again and again, to have been right in his basic ideas. Oh, he got some of the details wrong, but his theory is quite solidly established. When a religiously based belief does not fit known facts, it is the belief that must change. 
  
  Augustine of Hippo in De Genisi ad Litteram (usually translated as "On the Literal Meaning of Genesis") wrote:
  
  Often, a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits of the stars and even their sizes and distances, ... and this knowledge he holds with certainty from reason and experience. It is thus offensive and disgraceful for an unbeliever to hear a Christian talk nonsense about such things, claiming that what he is saying is based in Scripture. We should do all we can to avoid such an embarrassing situation, which people see as ignorance in the Christian and laugh to scorn.  (continued below)