Would that Jonathan Swift were still alive….
Before you watch this brief video, in which a “theologian” uses peanut butter to “disprove” evolution, reflect a moment on which group more than any other comprises what remains of the support structure behind the current administration in Washington DC. Then shudder.
April 5th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Oh no, not would that Jonathan Swift were alive, because he would find himself without a job. There is no job for a satirist when people such as those in the short video are satire-proof. How does one satirize a complete idiot? If the fellow in the video has the job he obviously is best suited for, he sweeps out the loading dock where they load the peanut butter into trucks. What’s frightening is that he may be the guy our President – hang your head in shame – has recently placed on a science committee that has real power over what research gets federal grants. Fah, I’m disgusted.
April 6th, 2007 at 6:46 am
One further thought. It belatedly occurs to me that the fellow in the video may have made the mistake of using peanut butter with hydrogenated oil. Of course you’re not going to find spontaneous generation of life with that kind of peanut butter. On the other hand, I can’t even count the number of times I’ve opened a jar of organic peanut butter, with non-hydrogenated oil, and found some ghastly creepy-crawly life form – admittedly, most of the time dead, because of the airtight seal – FOR YOUR PROTECTION – at the top of the jar, which cut off access to air and human flesh, the two things these horrors need to survive.
Okay, one more further thought. If all life was created by an all knowing and all powerful god, I have one question. Why mosquitoes?