Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools... Romans 1:22
"In an era when natural philosophers were consciously coming to rely 
on
idioms of prediction, experiment, demonstration, and discovery, when
accredited truths of nature were established by seeing and believing,
on
idioms of prediction, experiment, demonstration, and discovery, when
accredited truths of nature were established by seeing and believing, Darwin’s approach was doubly unusual. He was inviting people to believe
in a world run by irregular, unpredictable contingencies, as well as
asking them to accept his solution for the simple reason that it seemed
to work."
Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, p. 56
