November 29, 2005 11:28 AM
Well kids, it's Topical Tuesday again. This week is Evolution vs Creation.
Firstly when I was in high school a religious friend of mine said to me "Think about it this way, if you put all the parts of a watch in a box and shook it about, you wouldn't end up with a watch would you?". Now, years later this question popped into my mind again and I got to thinking, "You know, if you shook for long enough, you just might end up with a watch. 65 million years of shaking, might just get you a watch. Sure it wouldn't look very good, being all dented and such, but it might just be a watch". Personally, I don't plan on shaking a box of junk for 65 million years or so to find out, so I have no way to prove this.
I'm all for evolution, but I'm cool with other people thinking differently as long as they don't try and change my opinion. Sure debate is healthy, but preaching pisses me off.
I want to sit down with someone who makes this sort of shit their life and ask them to explain the whole cave man thing and all that. Also dinosaurs, how did they get here? Did "god" make them and then go, "ok, they're boring and stupid" and then throw a big rock at them? That sounds like something I would do. And where does this "god" reside? Does he live in the clouds? What was he doing before the whole seven days thing? Getting high? I bet he was! If it is a he.
Now, why do I think evolution is the way it happened? Apart from the fact that I find Physics immensely interesting? Well look at how a baby is made? Cells divide and grow and all these other wonderful things happen and there is science to prove it, how can that be denied? Evolution is the same thing, cells grow and change the way they grow and adapt. Natural selection in itself is a form of evolution. The weak creatures are weeded out and only the strong among the species survive to procreate. If evolution weren't present, we'd all look exactly the same. Each one of us have the same kind of cells, yet their combination is ever so slightly different so that no two of us are EXACTLY the same in everyway. Even identical twins are going to have differences, suttle as they may be. To quote House "One per cent the other way and she'd be a dolphin!"
Each new generation gets a different combination of cells and genes from it's parents. This is how I imagined that evolution happened. Monkies got less hairy, more intelligent and found other similar monkies and bred with them ... now here we are.
I'm more than happy to argue this sort of thing till the cows come how, but it seems an awful waste of an interesting power to create a world as fucked up as this. If I were "god" the world would be a fairly different place.