Reflections on life at “De Witte Wand”…
Although his statement, "But Darwinism is all about events that happened when there was nobody there to witness them. And it is also about events which – if happening now – are happening too slowly for anyone to live long enough to see them" is patently ridiculous and marks him as an observationist, he does not completely throw the baby out with the bathwater, as is evidenced in the closing statement of the article. Where he fails in his argument is to treat Darwinism as a fact, forgetting that, as with all theories, it is constantly being tested and revised as we acquire further knowledge and evidence. There is far more evidence for evolution in the fossil record than there isn’t. Hitchens assumes however, that what we can’t answer about Darwinism mitigates against it. This is sloppy thinking.
Were he truly as open minded as his closing statement enjoins us to be, he would set forth an argument for Darwanism and Creationsim to coexist. They need not be mutually exclusive for the faithful and would satisfy the agnostic.
Coboró, you write of the "argument for Darwanism and Creationsim to coexist. They need not be mutually exclusive for the faithful and would satisfy the agnostic". I’m sure that this can be so for the faithful and the agnostic, but so far I’ve not found a satisfactory argument for myself. However, I’ll keep looking. On my "to read" pile is Kenneth Miller’s Finding Darwin’s God. I’m interested to see whether I find his arguments to be persuasive.
I quite agree with her but would say she could have articulated her point better. Along with freedom of speech comes the attendant responsibility of civil discourse in a civilised society. People are too quick to trumpet their freedoms without pausing to consider that every freedom comes with a responsibility. Having failed to do so does not make Her Majesty silly, only perhaps in need of a better speech writer. Please send her my address.
Tee-hee! Perhaps you should consider it for your next job. And while you are right about the need for responsibility, there remains a treasured place in my heart for the value of ridicule in puncturing pride and pomposity. There seems to be just a little too much these days of people trumpeting that they have the right not to be offended. No one and no thing has the right to that particular get-out-of-jail-free card.
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Just trackbacked (I hope!) to say that I’d like to add that the BBC2 programme – mentioned at the end of the article filled out some of that ground and was well worth a watch – even at 6pm on Christmas day (I hope it is repeated!).
and now find that a reload of the comment page gets it to -semi- work!
"Little Faces" is about a society of women symbiotic with their living spaceships. It answers the age-old question, "How do you write an exciting romantic crime story set in a genderfucked anarchic utopia?"The women’s biology, sex, and gender is complicated. Males of the species, the "companions," are not quite sentient, and are attached to the female’s bellies somehow; they are a bit like children, mates, pets, or extra limbs. They’re like remora dildos with the emotional personalities of fire lizards. They’re also a bit like hard drives that contain part of the memory and experiences of the other women who created them. Out of modesty, on formal occasions they are kept covered, though a thoughtful woman would use a lacy veil so that her companions can see out.
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