"You can live some sort of life..."
Just found this quote from Richard Dawkins on this site about evolution:
Natural selection is the only workable explanation for the beautiful and compelling illusion of 'design' that pervades every living body and every organ. Knowledge of evolution may not be strictly useful in everyday commerce. You can live some sort of life and die without ever hearing the name of Darwin. But if, before you die, you want to understand why you lived in the first place, Darwinism is the one subject that you must study. — Richard Dawkins
I guess I am living "some sort of life" with a darkened intellect and a total lack of understanding of how I evolved from a Drosophilia. But I am laughing my ass off dancing on Lord Darwin's grave, and I'm ready for another beer.
There is no God, but anyway Darwin is His prophet.
ReplyDeleteProphet of gloom, since there is no doom. Reminds me of the Prince of Insufficient Light from the Dilbert strip who likes to "darn" people to "heck".
ReplyDeleteDarwin is the guy telling you the bad news. Maybe he should advertise on Glenn Beck's show.
Is there any better or more fit response to this stuff than mockery?
At some point, I suppose, sound arguments are required to overthrow materialistic principles. But when those principles are as badly handled as they are with Dawkins -- to the point where you might suspect his dogma is not materialism, but "Dawkins Akbar!" -- mockery may suffice.
ReplyDelete(I wonder if some materialists are prepared to argue that, if materialism can survive Dawking & Co., it must be true.)
That paragraph is the fastest trip ever from "only workable explanation" to "the one subject that you must study" "to understand why you lived in the first place". With only a detour to irrelevance to "everyday commerce" along the way.
ReplyDeleteIf all that is anything more than preaching to the closed-minded choir, then I'm a monkey's uncle.
Contrast the humility of admitting to be a drosophilia's descendent and the sheer arrogance of claiming to be a monkey's uncle. If there was a hell would we not shudder at this stupendous blasphemy?
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