More here.
There's an episode of Friends where Phoebe tells the gang (including Ross, the paleontologist) that she doesn't believe in Evolution. Finally, after much goading by Ross, she turns the table and demands that he tell her, in spite of all his supposed "openness" as a scientist to new ideas and new evidence, that there is absolutely, positively not even the remotest possibility that evolution is not how humans came to be.
He sheepishly admits that the possibility exists.
So I get it. I get that scientists can be a little smug, with their data and evidence that is so iron-clad and convincing until it gets utterly disproven. I understand that we might want to be a little more introspective teaching science and admit that evolution is just a theory. A theory that is fairly well supported, but still a theory, and disprovable (assuming we find such evidence).
But what I don't get is the other side. From my understanding, the entire "science" behind creationism is that humans are so complex that there must have been an intelligent hand involved.
Well, I could also argue that since anything has a one in a billion (or trillion or googilian) chance of happening, there could have been some crazy ass aliens that came here and either left a few of their dumbasses behind or left just enough spare parts to create the human race.
Awesome. Let's teach my theory in public school!
I confess I'm relieved about the topic of your post. When I saw the title, I thought that it would be about zombies! And I'm horrifically, irrationally scared of zombies!
Posted by: teahouseblossom | February 20, 2009 at 07:37 PM