How dare you right wing nuts insult dear Ardi. Evolution today, evolution tomorrow, evolution forever. And—here’s a bonus—she’s better looking than the Vermont congressional delegation, and will get better results if elected.
“Evolution today, evolution tomorrow, evolution forever.” ~ Combat_Liberalism
Why Darwinists Reject Evolution
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“Being that we are the image and likeness, we should expect to see traces of this in both our objective (i.e., bodily) and subjective (i.e., mental) states. Furthermore, there is no reason to believe that other animals shouldn’t share traces of this absoluteness, only in lesser forms, as they are “descended” from man, rather then vice versa.
“In other words, in relative, horizontal, and Darwinian terms, we may be “descended” from animals (or ascended, really), but in absolute and vertical terms the reverse is true. An ape is a partial manifestation of man; man is not a “perfect ape,” although Keith Olbermann comes close. ~ G.B.
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“Also, a key point is that the lower animals are vertically descended from man, whereas horizontally speaking it is the reverse. Thus we see “traces of humanness” in the lower animals, and traces of animality in man.” ~ G. B.
“Yes, to say that Adam “names the animals” is to say that man knows their vertical essences.” ~ Petey
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All the other vices flee from God, and only pride sets itself up against Him. —Boethius
“...But the [gospel] story somehow made immediate sense to two categories of people: those who were “poor in spirit,” with uncluttered minds and innocent hearts. But also to the super-sophisticated, those geniuses like a Gregory of Nyssa, or Augustine, or Denys the Areopagite, who had taken horizontal thought as far as it could go, and then beyond the horizon of knowability to the deeper realm of the unKnowable (unKnowing being a higher and deeper form of knowing).
“For me, of course, these are the most interesting cases. For unlike the purely secular intellectual, they do not place an arbitrary limit on thought and declare their own little ideas Supreme, like a child. Rather, they continue pushing through until achieving “vertical liftoff,” as in the case of an Eliot, Chesterton, Lewis, and so many others.
“Thought can lead to what is beyond it, but only for those who are both daring and humble (not to mention intelligent enough to pull it off; frankly, most of our secular priesthood are hopelessly middlebrow intellectual worker bees who know what they know, and that’s all they know). Far from being brave and independent thinkers, they cravenly “worship what is widely worshipped,” in the words of Berlinski.
“Suffice it to say, they can tell us “nothing of interest about the human soul.”
“And yet, their pride convinces them that they are somehow equipped “to face realities the rest of us cannot bear to contemplate.” I’ll believe that when Hitchens can bear to face reality sober. ...” ~ G.B.
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