Hey All,
Recently in one of my courses, my professor gave us this short peice to read. I found it very powerful and extremely helpful in understanding what is at stake in asking The Question about the meaning of life. Read it. Envision the setting. Enjoy it. Comment on it, Dammit! Oh, and if you get lost in all the different animals mentioned, know that most of the animals mentioned are pretty much all different kinds of ducks.
http://www.riverwalking.com/essay2.html
Here’s an interesting article about a creation film that can’t get a distributor in the USA.
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan.
In light of our recent discussion on the origins of humanity, I thought I’d throw this interesting Darwinian nugget out there. When Darwin is discussing how we should evaluate the possibility that ‘man’ descended from other animal forms, he asks if there are similarities found between humans and animals in such areas as bodily structure, capacity to contract or pass on disease, etc. Then he also notes this humorous similarity:
”Many kinds of monkeys have a strong taste for tea, coffee, and spirituous liquors: they will also, as I have myself seen, smoke tobacco with pleasure. Brehm asserts that the natives of north-eastern Africa catch the wild baboons by exposing vessels with strong beer, by which they are made drunk. He has seen some of these animals, which he kept in confinement, in this state; and he gives a laughable account of their behaviour and strange grimaces. On the following morning they were very cross and dismal; they held their aching heads with both hands, and wore a most pitiable expression: when beer or wine was offered them, they turned away with disgust, but relished the juice of lemons. An American monkey, an Ateles, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus was wiser than many men.” Charles Darwin, On The Descent of Man, Penguin Classics, pp. 23-24
Oh to be a monkey…or, wait….
I am struggling with understanding this one…
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Here’s an article to wet your appetite for Friday’s talk show.
Better late than never? Clergyman says church owes Darwin an apology: Scientific American Blog.