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I mention this because I went to see Ben Stein's new documentary “Expelled” today and it made me mad. It should make lots of people mad for all kinds of reasons. Darwinist will be upset at being compared to Nazis. Intelligent Designist will be upset that they are too firmly linked to Creationist. Creationist always seem a tad upset so I'm sure they will find something to make them bristle. My particular impetus for outrage is the lack of debate in the debate.
The Darwinist really come across as a group of bullies in the film, but I can't say I'm surprised. Turning Darwin into a deity doesn't really help their argument. I am surprised to hear Richard Dawkins say Intelligent Design might fit into evolution by way of extraterrestrials who designed life on Earth, but who were themselves products of evolution and natural selection making them undesigned. Yes, a lot of it has to do with what happens in the editing suite, but how many episode of Star Trek Next Gen do you have to watch before you forget it's science fiction? I couldn't help but think of Douglas Adams, Deep Thought, and designing the fjords.
The intelligent design group sounded a bit whiny. Being a martyr doesn't mean being a wimp. It was a weak attempt to separate themselves from the religious aspect. I would have liked a Creationist to chime in on the subject of being persecuted for their ideas, but they are probably hard to find these days. (Although there is that delightful man I met in South Dakota with the manic episode inspired chalk board time-line explaining how the fossils he sells fit into his Creationist views of the Bible. I'm sure he'd love to be interviewed.) The Darwinist and ID groups could bond over their common enemy - the non-evolutionist! Nothing brings groups together like ridiculing and excluding another group.
I don't believe in intelligent design. I believe in random design punctuated by necessity. I don't believe Darwin got it all right. I don't believe being a modern day Darwinist is a slippery slope into Nazism. I believe accepting Darwinism as an ideology rather than a scientific hypothesis is as ridiculous as treating Creationism as a scientific hypothesis instead of an ideology. I don't believe calling somebody an idiot is an acceptable debate tactic. I believe that most “eloquent solutions” to scientific questions are heavy on the eloquence and light on the solution. I also believe that having to back pedal in the face of modern molecular biology should have taught some Darwinist a lesson about making absolute propositions in science. Instead we have ego and hubris interfering with intellectual debate which only proves the politics of science haven't evolved since Darwin's time.

Words escape me. I...the...what...bayah...
I often joke that I take pills at night to keep me from killing myself and pills in the morning to keep me from killing other people. I believe I will be doubling up on the morning pills for the rest of the month.
AND to the NanoWriMo-er who expects me to reply in private - I think the word you are looking for is "pretensious", but I'm really more of an elitist. I'm not "acting" like I'm better than you. I AM better than you. I'll be at CF Panera this afternoon if you'd like to stop by and discuss this further.
Since I haven’t been blogging lately I haven’t done my fangirl bit so Frank Whaley is on House tonight! SQUEEE!!! I am totally psyched. Frank Whaley is, as you may recall from previous blog entries, one of my favorite actors - brilliant as the fed up assistant in “Swimming with Sharks”, heart-breaking as the crippled guitar player in “Swing Kids”, and creepy in “Vacancy”. Of course, he was also in “Chelsea Walls” which, as I might have mentioned before, I have no memory of. I mean I remember going to Cedar Lee to see it. I believe I tried the Australian wine-in-a-can that evening. Karen S. was with me. Then there is like a two hour gap in my memory – perhaps caused by the wine-in-a-can. I do recall feeling disappointed and something about too little D’onofrio and too much Kris Kristofferson. That might be completely inaccurate, BUT the point is he’s on House tonight 9 pm EST on Fox.
Sorry for the low profile of late, but I will make it up to anybody who wants to come over to my house on Sunday for a picnic/desk moving!
I did post two new videos on Viddler even though I still haven't fixed the audio.
How I Spent My Lunch or The Miraculous Healing Powers of the Partridge Family
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New Music Tuesday or Why I Love Packaging
I whined about the House soundtrack - no more than I did about the House DVDs. They just need to add a dash of panache. It's so bare bones it has to be a calculated decision. Well, it didn't stop me from buying so I suppose it worked. There isn't even a new pic of Hugh Laurie although I hadn't seen the pic of Robert Sean Leonard inside, but I suspect a die-hard fan like JJ has. (I can hear him now going on and on about Leonard's soulful eyes. haha - wait, I've got to call him! Not answering. Darn.)
BUT then I logged on to MySpace, a miracle in and of itself, and I see a message from the Band from TV space. I click and WHOA-HEY!!! MINNIE THE MOOCHER!!! It's a brilliant arrangement of one of my favorite songs and Lester Holt, if I can use the parlance of the street, is the mezz! Go - listen to the song! Now!
Oh Happy Day!!! One of my all time favorite shows is "Good vs Evil" - originally called "G vsE" and now it's on the Chiller Channel! Yeah!!!! This show was brilliant. Clayton Rohner (Yum!) played Chandler Smythe - a newspaper reporter who gets killed and becomes a member of "The Corps" - a group of people who try to stop "the Morlocks" from making Faustian deals and taking souls. Richard Brooks played Henry McNeil, Chandler's partner. He died back in the 70's and still has the 'fro to prove it. Ohmigosh - the fun we had when they revealed Henry was from Cleveland! Googy Gress played their boss and his sidekick was played by Marshall Bell. If you've only seen them in commercials you are so missing out! OH! And Deacon Jones was the narrator and head of the Corps! He even did these bits about how to kill Morlocks.
Brooks, Gess, Rohner, and Bell
It has one of the best title sequences in TV history! "A man torn from his family, murdered in his prime, only to return to Earth, resurrected as an agent of the Almighty Corps. With no magic, no special powers, forbidden from intimate contact, unrecognizable to those from their past lives, Chandler Smythe and Henry McNeil now fight to save lost souls against the minions of darkness. It is a battle of Good versus Evil. G vs E, that's what it is!"
Brought to us by the genius Pate twins - Jonas and Josh!