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| Posted by: Rembrandt |
2/20/2008 2:51 PM |
When the state of Florida, where my niece and nephiew go to school, decided to make 'creationism' a scientific theory - I just stared at my screen in amazement. Shortly later, this quote popped up on slashdot as a rebuttal to someone screaming how creationism is more spiritually inspiring:
"Why, yes, O'Brien, according to our best evidence we did descend from
apes - more precisely, we and modern apes descended from a common,
ape-like ancestor. I for one am proud of how far our species has developed,
how far up from the muck we've come, how far towards grace we've
climbed; and I hope that our umptity-great grandchildren will be as far
above us as we are above the Australopithecines. My opponent the
Biblical literalist, on the other hand, seems to hold that we're all
the fallen result of incestuous inbreeding from a single original pair
of idiots dumb enough to be fooled by a talking snake. I've got to say
I find the scientific account not only more rational, but orders of
magnitude more inspiring."
That needs to be on a t-shirt or something.
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Re: Florida's mistake gives us a great quote at least. |
By Bradley on
7/1/2008 5:06 PM |
Kevin Kline: "Apes don't read philosophy."
Jamie Lee Curtis: "Yes they do, Otto, they just don't understand it."
I remember volunteering at a Christian coffeehouse just off my college campus around eight or nine years ago, and I was discussing binomial nomenclature of various animals. When homo sapiens came up, a girl at the next table overheard us and took issue with calling human beings animals. I pointed out that taxonomy places humans squarely inside kingdom animalia, but she pointed out that scientists were the ones who made that decision, not humans. I only jokingly commented that we should reject scientific classification of humans as animals or even as a species, but she, not jokingly, 100% seriously, agreed. I almost fell out of my chair.
Another great misconception I can't believe many people believe is that Darwinism states than people are the descendants of monkeys. Is there really any distinction more germane to the discussion than that Darwinism states that man and ape descended from common ancestors? Cripes. |
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By Bradley again on
7/1/2008 5:08 PM |
For some reason it cut off my final mini-paragraph:
I'm an easygoing bloke, but I know I'm probably going to have an issue with someone who tells me that the only appropriate reference to Darwin is within the term "social Darwinism." |
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