antw. Re: Religious Fundamentalism in Orwell and Pynchon

[Dave Monroe]

"Science" by Matt Cook

Science was invented by a bunch of guys who were so
ugly 
they couldn't possibly believe in God. 

How smart are we? 
We descended from apes -- 
now we dress like them on halloween. 

It is said that a barrel of monkeys are fun;  
monkeys evolved into humans who  
invented barrels to put monkeys in  
so it would be fun. 
Monkeys aren't any fun on their own,  
so maybe it's just barrels that are fun.  
Shooting fish in a barrel is supposed to be easy --  
this makes simple Darwinian sense:  
barrels were fashioned by natural selection to 
make shooting fish easy. 

"Monkey see, monkey do" was the first  
example of eye-hand coordination; 
the pie in the face was next.  
I threw a birthday cake at the man who 
shot Liberty Valance.  He was 24.  
Nowadays we can't figure out why 
smallpox is so funny. 

Tyrannosaurus rex didn't really look like that;  
he wasn't really built like that -- 
walking upright,  
on two legs with those dinky little arms…  
eating flesh like that --  
there's no way he could hunt like that.  
He was a veggo if ever there was one.  
We found a bunch of bones lying around and  
we think we know how they fit together.  
Right.  
They've arranged those bones in all sorts of ways.  
They've come up with all sorts of crazy-shaped beasts.
 
This one just happens to look the most ferocious.  
Some kid 
probably liked it the best.  
It sells dinosaur books. 
 
http://www.dynagirl.com/stories/cook/cook2.html

--- lorentzen-nicklaus
<lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de> wrote:
> 
> MalignD at aol.com schrieb:
> 
> > Why would anyone waste his time trying to defend
> > anyone who believes in God?
> 
>   because it's better than defending blockheads who
> believe in science --- kfl
> 
>   ps. "science does not think" (heidegger)

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