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Comments by Dr.GH


1. 'Expelled' ripped off Harvard's 'Inner Life of the Cell' animation

Comment #159083 by Dr.GH on April 11, 2008 at 12:24 pm

Several friends and I plan to do this while loudly laughing and doing Ben Stein impressions throughout. Good times.


I wouldn't mind coming along with you, but being disruptive would be a very bad idea. Preparing some sort of handout that could be passed out to people leaving might work.

2. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #149211 by Dr.GH on March 25, 2008 at 9:09 am

I have been delighted with the unfolding events following your visit with PZ and friends. The floundering and lying by the creationists truly exposes them for the shallow people they are.

There are two points I would like to make regarding a portion of your item above where you commented that you wanted a society "about as un-Darwinian as we can make it." Darwin certainly agreed with you. In Chapter 5 of the Decent of Man, Darwin wrote regarding the protection of the weak and ill, "Nor could we check our sympathy, even at the urging of hard reason, without the deterioration in the noblest part of our nature. The surgeon may harden himself whilst performing an operation, for he knows that he is acting for the good of his patient; but if we were to intentionally neglect the weak and helpless it could only be for a contingent benefit, with an overwhelming present evil."

He later observed, "Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker... the social instincts, - the prime principle of man's moral constitution - with the aid of active intellectual powers and the effects of habit, naturally lead to the golden rule, "As ye would that men should do to you; do ye to them likewise"; and this lies at the foundation of morality. Part I, Chap. IV
--Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, 1871.

The second is that even Richard Nixon would be far too liberal for today's conservative movement. Nixon signed and even promoted the Environmental Protection Act, and extended it by several presidential orders. He imposed wage and price controls and even nationalized the railroads, all "socialistic" actions under the current Republican politic. To imagine Nixon as a liberal is to see how far we have fallen.