ManusJustus said:
If you think parts of evolution are obsurd, maybe you should read the Bible :) |
Most of the stuff in the Bible is miraculous; I don't find the concept to far a stretch of the imagination. But, if I did, it wouldn't matter. Take, for example, a quote by Richard Lewontin, evolutionary biologist and author of Billions and Billions of Demons,
"We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door".
We both have an a priori commitment.
Okami
To lavish praise upon this title, the assumption of a common plateau between player and game must be made. I won't open my unworthy mouth.
