The never ending story….
The above is not in reference to the movie with Jonathon Brandis or Falcor, I am refering instead to the great debate between religion and science. The link below is an article about a skeleton being touted by some in the scientific world as the missing link
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25510652-5011761,00.html
I won’t rant too much about the article itself, its pretty self explanatory, I will make mention that for some random reason it has not been classed as front page news, or world news but has been lumped in the WTF (Weird True Freaky) section. Apparently not as news worthy as the front page article on children’s television viewing habits. Yes kids watch stupid shows but that’s because they have absolutely no idea what is going on, if it is furry, cuddly, colourful or sings then they will love it. Look at the Wiggles!
My main gripe is in fact the reader’s comments for the article;
http://www.news.com.au/comments/0,23600,25510652-5011761,00.html
In such short time, what could have been a insightful debate about fossils and skeletons and evolution, turned into a crapstorm of insults, falseties and general nastiness between the two sides. I think I only saw one comment that commented on the article itself and what interesting news it made without making an opinion or taking a side, it could just have been a sarcasm that i have misinterpreted though.
Now I am all for science and I do believe in evolution but I am not going to try and make anyone else believe what I do (even if I do think the world would be a better place if everyone listened to me, but if this happened I would in fact be god and throw my own theories of evolution out the window, catch 22) and I wouldn’t start insulting anyone because they believe what they do. I think in this day and age and even as history shows, when we disagree and we try and make others think as we do, we argue, get drunk, throw punches, stab people with swords and go to war and if you’re really ambitious you get genocidically homicidal (if people aren’t alive they can’t disagree with you).
The debate and disagreement on this subject will never end and it will continue, as sure as the earth is round and revolves around the sun (science has of course been useful in the discovery of somethings), if people keep trying to come out on top as ‘right’ and ‘knowledgable.’
It’s a case of “I know you are but what am I?” that strange game you used to play in primary school when people said you were a poohead or a garbage man and failing any evidence contrary or lack of linguistic skills you replied, “I know you are but what am I?” And they would say you were a poohead or a garbage man again and you would bring out those magical words, “I know you are but what am I?” And the cycle would repeat until someone got bored and found something else to do.
I did have to laugh though, some of the comments were quite hilarious in both stupidity and irony.
Mr. Logic Link claimed that science can’t explain the nothing of the BIG BANG or how the universe could expand if it doesn’t exist yet (which one was completely off topic) but secondly shows they don’t really know much about quantum mechanics or physics because if they have this theory they are conceptualising ‘nothing’ as something. For the theory to work, ‘nothing’ is not simply a lack of doing, being or seeing, it is non-existant. The universe can expand because there is ‘nothing’ stopping it from doing so and ‘nothing’ means it has somewhere to go. There is no space or universe outside the universe.
Kate of Adelaide used a wonderful analogy of ‘technological evolution’ of the IPOD, again sarcasm? I am not sure.
There was a nice little something from Kev from NT, who believes that Darwin renounced his theories on his death bed, any self-respecting media sponge would have read wikipedia and found out that wasn’t true!
There is a lot of research into the human genome and animal DNA and I am pretty sure that when you check human DNA and pretty much any animal that there is a 80-95% match, that is why scientists feel that we all developed from single celled organisms. Primates are considered our closest relatives or evolutionary ancestor because we have a greater percentage match.
Personally if we evolved from bears it would be more exciting. Why bears? Why not?
