Tuesday, March 09, 2010

q and a last night delivered a lame panel that included richard dawkins who ate the minds of his co panelists, a woman rabbi from sydney who was very nice, quite bright but offered nothing revolutionary or insightful into the debate although she was at least more honest and less defensive than the others, a lib and labour politician who came out with the usual respect other peoples views even if the views represent the insane or deluded fools who think science is a mythological domain, an independent family first politician with the intelligence and personality of a newt and an australian of the year man who was a phycologist who generally didn't want to upset anyone, it was incredible to watch the level of discussion sink to the same old crap dawkins protagonists throw at him, not one original challenging question. even my own question, would the intelligence behind the universe not create the concept of evolution was barely answered adequately. the great minds of australia are either dormant or asleep, come on there was so much to discuss and yet we are given the weakest and most dumbest ideas and perceptions from the most unimaginative idiots. poor richard dawkins i felt very sad that he was having to tolerate these fools, and despite my clash with his ideas found myself in agreement with most of what he said.
i do think the rabbi was pretty cool in mentioning that the human brain could not really conceptualise god and that she could only really deal with here and now, but still quite a limited frame of reference generally.
to harp back to the people challenging dawkins by saying he is disrespectful was an indication of a society that truly is insanely in the grip of this idea of ideological relativism. how can evolution possibly occur? it's like the fucking birds wishing they were dinosaurs again.

1 comment:

Tezza the Bard said...

God read about Prof Richard Dawkins
and tired of his mewling and hecklings
he came down to earth
Using a Virgin birth
to give him a bloody good spanking

Dawkins wanted proof and critera
about Utimate Being in particular
God moved as he may
in a mysterious way
and kneed him in the genitalia

Dawkins now explained at fast pace
that Darwin has solved the big case
You know,you don't exist
I'm an existentialist
So God hit once more on the face

Dawkins then slagged off Saints and Arhats
At this God laid him out flat
he shouted out loud
to the assembled crowd
"No-one talks about MY kids like that".

God ascended and then left the scene
Dawkins couldn't accept what he'd seen
But he was back in the pink
After a course from his Shrink
Who explained it as psychotic dream.

But somewhere in time and in space
Omnipotent,All knowing and vast
God is still dining out
on that story about
the day he kicked Dawkins arse.