Post by Brian Roebuck on Jul 22, 2008 5:40:40 GMT -5
Losing Sight of Progress
HOW BLIND SALAMANDERS MAKE NONSENSE OF CREATIONISTS' CLAIMS.
By Christopher Hitchens
Posted Monday, July 21, 2008, at 11:34 AM ET
It is extremely seldom that one has the opportunity to think a new thought about a familiar subject, let alone an original thought on a contested subject, so when I had a moment of eureka a few nights ago, my very first instinct was to distrust my very first instinct. To phrase it briefly, I was watching the astonishing TV series Planet Earth (which, by the way, contains photography of the natural world of a sort that redefines the art) and had come to the segment that deals with life underground.
www.slate.com/id/2195683/
HOW BLIND SALAMANDERS MAKE NONSENSE OF CREATIONISTS' CLAIMS.
By Christopher Hitchens
Posted Monday, July 21, 2008, at 11:34 AM ET
It is extremely seldom that one has the opportunity to think a new thought about a familiar subject, let alone an original thought on a contested subject, so when I had a moment of eureka a few nights ago, my very first instinct was to distrust my very first instinct. To phrase it briefly, I was watching the astonishing TV series Planet Earth (which, by the way, contains photography of the natural world of a sort that redefines the art) and had come to the segment that deals with life underground.
www.slate.com/id/2195683/
