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Odd "science" pondering...
Sep. 28th, 2005 12:26 amPlease bear in mind that I'm submitting this bit of thought as an Orthodox Jew, and it's merely a humorous thought exercise, not a philosophical belief or anything.
So, some folks lately have been making a big fuss insisting that intelligent design be tought in public schools.In a nutshell, ID posits that life on earth didn't evolve randomly, but was instead created with the assistance of "some sort of outside force," by which they most likely mean God, but can't actually come out and say it yet. Maybe they could get away with it sometime during W's fourth or fifth administration. (My own personal opinion? God created intelligent life using random evolution as the mechanism thereof. I honestly don't see why everyone's making a fuss. Anyway, I digress.)
So, what if, years down the line, humanity definitively discovers that intelligent life on earth was created by Intelligent Design, but the designer happens to be an alien. (By definitively, I mean an alien spacecraft lands on the White House lawn, an alien emerges and gives a press conference, basically saying, "hi folks, I created y'all. Now get in the kitchen and make me some pie. Also, bring me the heads of the Fox TV network executives. Those morons cancelled Firefly!"
Any ideas?
So, some folks lately have been making a big fuss insisting that intelligent design be tought in public schools.In a nutshell, ID posits that life on earth didn't evolve randomly, but was instead created with the assistance of "some sort of outside force," by which they most likely mean God, but can't actually come out and say it yet. Maybe they could get away with it sometime during W's fourth or fifth administration. (My own personal opinion? God created intelligent life using random evolution as the mechanism thereof. I honestly don't see why everyone's making a fuss. Anyway, I digress.)
So, what if, years down the line, humanity definitively discovers that intelligent life on earth was created by Intelligent Design, but the designer happens to be an alien. (By definitively, I mean an alien spacecraft lands on the White House lawn, an alien emerges and gives a press conference, basically saying, "hi folks, I created y'all. Now get in the kitchen and make me some pie. Also, bring me the heads of the Fox TV network executives. Those morons cancelled Firefly!"
Any ideas?