Daniel Dennett redux

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  • by Frank Paynter on August 29, 2024

    Here’s a young man who gets it

    …what ’school of thought’ is being advanced by the Intelligent Design
    hypothesis?–one whose only defense seems to be that it is incapable of
    scientific testing, and thus impregnable. To me, the concept of
    intelligent Design is muddy, nebulous and bankrupt, a fence-straddling
    pseudo-theory that provides a convenient alternative to those who want
    to pull their toes out of the icy waters of the evolution-creationism
    debate. Essentially, ID attempts to bridge creationism and evolution by
    attempting to prove neither. To most rational people, this should make
    the ‘debate’ seem altogether irrelevant.

    Something else that’s been on my mind about this whole "Intelligent Design" thing…  it’s not as pro-god as it is anti-sex.  The great engine of evolution over the last billion years has been the emergence and avid practice of sexual reproduction.  And we KNOW what the christian right thinks about sex, joyous sex, wet and hard and hot and passionate, slippery sex.   Okay, in case you don’t know, they basically don’t like it.  And tying sex to survivbal characteristics they like even less.  One look at Rove, Cheney, or Rumsfeld should tell you why they don’t like the evolutionary aspect of sex.  Survival of the fittest?  Let’s just say that the pairing of Lynn and Chuck … what is Cheney’s first name?  He looks like a Chuck.  Anyway, the Cheney pairing is noty the stuff of evolutionary dreams.  Breeding?  Not really.  It’s more a thing of sow bellies and pork futures.

    If this be ad hominem, make the most of it!

    { 3 comments… read them below or add one }

    Tamar 08.30.05 at 5:45

    “And we KNOW what the christian right thinks about sex, joyous sex, wet and hard and hot and passionate, slippery sex. ”

    This lies at the core of so much of *not only* abhorrence of evolution - but also intolerance about gays and lesbians. For if one is to imagine different orientations one simply *must* think about sex! And as you say, Frank, “we KNOW what …”

    the head lemur 08.30.05 at 8:40

    and on sunday morning the church bells ring

    Bring your money, breed more catholics!

    Sex is inherently evil, being an activity not requiring third party confirmation, bringing pleasure and intimacy without a guy in a cassock at the foot of the bed, intoning…
    “Thou Shalt Not Thrust For Pleasure”

    Karl Rove 08.30.05 at 11:26

    Survival of the fittest? I thought it was survival of the fattest.

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