Ah wunce briefly pertissipatid @ a forum that functioned as a Leftist cyberchurch, their meetin place fer fellowship, reinforcin each utherz' doktrinz, and mullinin the infidelz (thoze ov us who warn't Left). Their favrit kunnard wazzat Darwinizm din't in no way hav nuthn ta do with the "death" o God (cumpletely contradictin folk such as Provine, who haz the innerlekshooal integriddy ta call a spade a spade). Iss too bad they ain't well rayud enuff ta know Steven Gould's own argyoomint in that direkshn:
"The radicalism of natural selection lies in its power to dethrone some of the deepest and most traditional comforts of Western thought, particularly the notion that nature's benevolence, order, and good design, with humans at a sensible summit of power and excellence, proves [sic] the existence of an omnipotent and benevolent creator who loves us most of all (the old-style theological version), or at least that nature has meaningful directions, and that humans fit into a sensible and predictable pattern regulating the totality (the modern and more secular version)."
"Traditional comforts"? Izzit a cumfurt ta yew, Mr. G, ta thank that (see my prevyuss post) yew'z gonna be accownid az nuthn but a phantom by the One who gived ewe the vurry brainz ta write that purragraff? Izzit a cumfurt ta know yew'll spind eterniddy in a never-indin lava-hot Primordial Soup Pit?
