Yahweh
12th June 2003, 10:52 AM
I got one of those chain mails again. Usually I delete them because they are a waste of my time. But this one caught my eye. The subject was "Petitition to take evolution out of schools". I had to see who would want to sign something like that because in all honesty, evolution is facts, not a religion (if your not Jack Chick). The primary arguement against evolution went like this:
Evolution is flawed. It cant happen. It says that mutations make animals evolve and everyone knows that god made animals like they are today. And even if evolution is real, god makes evolution happen. It is flawed because what if a monkey "evolved" one day to be born blind, well then that monkey is blind for the rest of its life. Thats it, the monkey is blind.
The email went on to describe how the monkey would continue to be blind because obviously if it didnt do that then we would all be confused to if that monkey is blind a little, or blind entirely </sarcasm>. I just had to put that whole blind monkey arguement on these boards because it was hysterically bad. I've never caught myself laughing at something like that. Before I thought about putting it on these boards I deleted it (crap?!?). I wanted to find the original creator of this "logic" and tell him that if the monkey was born blind it probably couldnt live long enough to make other blind monkeys. Yes there are animals who have poor eyesight but in the case of a monkey, being blind is a handicap and animals in the wild with handicaps will almost always die and will never produce offspring.
There were some 500 names and addresses. When the next person gets the chain mail please put a copy of it on the boards so everyone can enjoy its idiocy. I hope that all who signed this petition know that no government couldnt give 2 s**ts to how many names are signed on any petition let alone an anonymous chain mail petition.
While I wasted my time reading that email I began thinking to myself if they really took the "dice principle" seriously. For future reference the "dice principle" asks the question "If I say the word 'sixes' over and over, will it increase the likely hood that I will throw a pair of sixes". Dont strain trying to figure out the answer to that mystery.
Evolution is flawed. It cant happen. It says that mutations make animals evolve and everyone knows that god made animals like they are today. And even if evolution is real, god makes evolution happen. It is flawed because what if a monkey "evolved" one day to be born blind, well then that monkey is blind for the rest of its life. Thats it, the monkey is blind.
The email went on to describe how the monkey would continue to be blind because obviously if it didnt do that then we would all be confused to if that monkey is blind a little, or blind entirely </sarcasm>. I just had to put that whole blind monkey arguement on these boards because it was hysterically bad. I've never caught myself laughing at something like that. Before I thought about putting it on these boards I deleted it (crap?!?). I wanted to find the original creator of this "logic" and tell him that if the monkey was born blind it probably couldnt live long enough to make other blind monkeys. Yes there are animals who have poor eyesight but in the case of a monkey, being blind is a handicap and animals in the wild with handicaps will almost always die and will never produce offspring.
There were some 500 names and addresses. When the next person gets the chain mail please put a copy of it on the boards so everyone can enjoy its idiocy. I hope that all who signed this petition know that no government couldnt give 2 s**ts to how many names are signed on any petition let alone an anonymous chain mail petition.
While I wasted my time reading that email I began thinking to myself if they really took the "dice principle" seriously. For future reference the "dice principle" asks the question "If I say the word 'sixes' over and over, will it increase the likely hood that I will throw a pair of sixes". Dont strain trying to figure out the answer to that mystery.