More Intelligent Design

[mrnoodle]

When we're talking about theories of origin and other esoteric stuff, we're not talking about reproducible results. We have a group of science-minded people claiming that it's all one big jigsaw puzzle (with a few pieces missing), and whatever order they cram the pieces together is the picture we're supposed to buy.

It's like we've deified Darwin, and whatever framework he came up with is the one we're going to follow, no matter how square the peg or round the hole. It's got to fit, and if we don't know how, we'll just call it an aberration and move on to something that is less controversial.

No matter how much you cloak the conversation in highbrow terminology and mutual scientific masturbation, when pared down, it goes like this:

"Man evolved from apes."
"How do you know?"
"We found some bones that look like a mix between man and ape, and we don't know what else they could be."
"Maybe they're just ugly apes."
"No, because we've already decided that man evolved from apes, so this has to fit into that pattern."