And a made up story that would do MARVEL COMICS proud is.
Actually, funny little story here.
I sometimes hang around on Peter David’s message board. (For non-comic fans, he’s a writer who often works for Marvel.) At the time, he had recently written an issue of Spider-Man in which Spidey and Reed Richards were debating intelligent design. Of course, ID was dismissed as totally ridiculous, nonscientific, religious claptrap. Then I piped in with what I thought was a very interesting point -
In the Marvel Universe, we know that ID is true. Marvel has published stories about the origins of their fictional universe. Space aliens appeared on the scene and seeded the development of human beings. They also guided the gradual development of man into his modern form.
So, while I pointed out that I had no problem with the portrayal (since it had the “scientific” approach favoring a patently false notion), I suggested that it might be more in line with his viewpoint to have Spidey and Reed talking about how scientific Intelligent Design is while dismissing Evolution as total claptrap.
Needless to say, my opinion was not greeted very enthusiatically by Pete’s other fans.