Thursday, February 03, 2005

Evolving thoughts

The story of pepper moths shows how natural selection actually works. You can do it for yourself. I defy even creationists not to enjoy the challenge of moth-gobbling. Remember, for Darwin to be wrong, you have to not find it easier to eat the light ones in the dark forest. Bonne chance!

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Sponge and son of sponge. Look what beauty there is even in the most humble of life.

I rejoice in it. It is fascinating to see what evolution has wrought and belief that you need a god to fashion each part of it diminishes the wonder for me.

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What makes something "explicitly unique"? Enjoy the music of Gaahd on this creationist site.

Let's face it, if there is a God, he's not a very nice one if he has gifted his followers with the panpipe instead of the electric guitar (which we all know is the source of the devil's music.

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When all else fails, and the creationists have failed, apply Godwin's Law and claim your opponents are Nazis.

As the commenters point out to Sarfati (or rather the editor of the Conservative Voice who thought he was worth lifting and using, without his permission one might presume, given that this is an old piece that Sarfati has seen discredited before), Hitler claimed his antiSemitism was fuelled by fanatical Christianity.

We make our own world. We make the rules that guide it. We make them out of whatever cloth appeals to us. A person can spin Darwinism into hatred, or the word of God or that of Buddha.

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Still, it's not all bad. Apparently, Ronnie Reagan is in hell.

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