(Part2) While I think this supports the point I am making anyway, I do have reservations that a ’self-created’ purpose will ultimately sustain a person. Either way I think Jean-Paul and I are agreed that meaning, whether intrinsic or self-created, is necessary to our psychological survival. لعبه بوكر And so we create our grids of order and argue about what is true or not (see Aneristic Illusion blog, Monday, 17 February). Which brings me back to evolutionary theory. The issue I have with evolutionary theory (since you ask!) is that here we have a grid that is essentially foisted on us and touted as absolute truth. (Mark, John, if the teachers and professors of biology were standing up and saying that Natural Selection was simply one of the forces acting on our development as organisms I wouldn’t be nearly so critical. But they’re not.) And I think that there are parts of the theory that, when given a moment’s objective thought by a half-way intelligent person, are both deeply counter-intuitive and suspicious flimsy. I have spelled some of these out in the previous anti-evolution blog but let me very briefly ask you to consider the lizard (?) that has accumulated feathered appendages where it’s front legs used to be. These are as yet only half-way to being wings so Mr Lizard cannot yet fly. As you can imagine his movement on the ground is also gravely encumbered. Amazingly however, he is perfectly adapted to his environment. Equally amazingly he leaves no fossil trace. 365 رياضة His nickname to his predator neighbours is ’toast’. Anyway. But the real reason that I object to this particular grid being imposed on us (and this gives you a glimpse into my warped mind) is that it strips away a previous grid which imbued human existence with meaning and purpose and replaces it with something that is bland and empty. This is bad for us as individuals and this is bad for us as a society. لعبه بوكر I stand for meaning at the cost of reason; purpose at the expense of science. Happily the human mind compensates beautifully for these boring grids and the tighter the scientific grid is welded onto us the more we believe in aliens, fairies and demons. The harder Evolution is taught in some schools the more Creationism is taught in others and the more ’Interventionist’ theories take hold in public consciousness. For every Charles Darwin there will be ten Andrew Collinses. (Ok, now I’m scaring myself.) Despite Carl Sagan’s, Richard Dawkin’s and, most recently, Bill Bryson’s best efforts, the common man pretty much ignores science and the ’cog-in-the-clockwork’ approach of the hard-core scientists. But to prove that I can mix it with the best of them in terms of predictive theories let me state for the record that in evidence of my Interventionist theories (I use Ian Lawton’s word rather than Dan Bern’s more explicit description ? by the way did you know that Ian has sold his house and is now living on a boat in Brighton marina?) I claim that one day, very soon, genetic scientists will discover that part of the human DNA has been ’crippled’ to make us live shorter lives. Of course whether this information will ever be allowed reach us is an entirely different matter?