Monkey’s Faith
Slashdot | Did Humans Evolve? No, Say Americans:
“In a 2005 poll covering 33 countries, Americans are the least likely (except for Turkish respondents) to assert that ‘humans developed … from earlier species of animals.’ Iceland, meanwhile, has an 85% acceptance rating for evolution.” The blurb on the site for Science magazine is less circumspect about the findings: “The acceptance of evolution is lower in the United States than in Japan or Europe, largely because of widespread fundamentalism and the politicization of science in the United States.”
Look, so many of the American monkeys do not believe their own eyes, their own reason. They cling to a desperate hope that their frail sad existence has some purpose beyond their heritage. They hope that their existence comes from some divine spark, that they are the chosen of all the animals on this dirt ball.
Well, good for God, at least he still has some followers, blind faith always had a sour taste to me, but its better than hunger.
Loki
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You make it sound as thought it’s only a black or white argument. What about intelligent design and other theories that are a mix of the two schools of thought? Anything can be made to look stupid if you remove all other options…
P.S. I finally linked you, are you happy now?!
I apologize, you have to understand, that to Loki, things are black and white, he represents a segment of a spectrum and all that this paradox entails. His path is one of conflict and hate, and however distasteful this seems, it is also neccessary for balance. Without conflict there can be no growth.
- Monkey King