but i don't want life to be complicated

all i want is us and them

I did like this video, despite it being jackoff material for evolutionists. I guess, for me, it is really nice to see someone address all the misconceptions and hysteria surrounding a topic with a degree of grace. This woman's preaching to the choir doesn't really change anything, but it does feel good to hear someone quietly defending the truth.

At least, my version of the truth.

Now I don't feel so bad for ranting in the burka video. You tried to make me seem irrational, baleen, and here you are equating people who support evolution with people who are trying to kill Palestine.

What's next, throwing in people who support gravity with satan worshipers?

Oh and baleen, they may be creationists and have established fields in science, but they don't use creationism to further science - and most of them end up talking out of both sides of their mouth. They'll go to church and say one thing, then get in the lab and when they're forced to be honest do something completely different. This is why they can publish actual peer-reviewed science but why they have to write popular press books and write blogs to get their creationist viewpoint across.

Most of the creationists are far away from biology anyway - and the ones that even try to do geology or paleontology have rarely, if ever, contributed to science.

It's easy to be a creationist and an engineer, for example (the falaysufs as much as proved this centuries ago) but not so easy to even barely comprehend evolution and make a case for creationism with a straight face.

Or you could live in the fantasy world Frank Tipler inhabits. I'm still surprised that Tulane hasn't kicked him out yet.

(and yes I am jerking off even as I cry for Palestine)

Final note: I think Gerardus Bouw was a sort of sparring partner for a professor I had. The prof wrote a philosophy of science book that was largely centered around history's changing understanding of planetary motion. He also shepherded the astronomy club, and was a cartographer in his spare time. Dude was the Ali of arguing about the earth.

Darwin's daughter publicly accused Lady Hope of lying her ass off about Darwin's deathbed conversion in 1922*. She never replied to the accusation, and liars and ignoramouses have been repeating her bullshit since 1915 despite clear evidence to the contrary.

It's apt justice that Lady Hope will be remembered mainly for the lies she told.

*http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/hope.html or wikipedia or whatever.

He would go nuts over the cache of fossils we've dug up. They not only provide some last-minute, incontrovertible proof for a theory that didn't need it, but also show the existence of creatures that no one even dreamed of. He missed out on Mendelian genetics. Perhaps most importantly, he missed out on DNA.

He wouldn't be surprised by the opposition. He was mocked, along with Wallace, Lamarck, and many others for daring to suggest that species are mutable (let alone commonly derived).

Still, I bet he'd be disappointed that it's stuck around so long. That so many deny our origins, even after this many years. He saw common descent as beautiful and awe-inspiring, and in his letters he sort of assumes that eventually the world would feel the same.

She touches on a lot of this in the lecture. I hope people are watching it instead of commenting on the title.