Comments on: March of the Penguins or March of the Conservatives? http://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=400 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:35:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: liam http://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=400&cpage=1#comment-1609 liam Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:46:25 +0000 http://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=400#comment-1609 I have to say, the Intelligent Designer creating something like penguins is one whimsical deity (why aren't more deities given a sense of irony or whimsy?). It's not of much use trying to convince people who firmly believe in Intelligent Design away from it, as they aren't basing their views on evidence anyways, pyrotechnic 'acts of god' (hmmmm) might be the only way to sway thes . Of course, I'm obligated to mention, at least once, the marvelous theory of <a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39512" rel="nofollow">Intelligent Falling</a>. <i>"Things fall not because they are acted upon by some gravitational force, but because a higher intelligence, 'God' if you will, is pushing them down"</i> I have to say, the Intelligent Designer creating something like penguins is one whimsical deity (why aren’t more deities given a sense of irony or whimsy?). It’s not of much use trying to convince people who firmly believe in Intelligent Design away from it, as they aren’t basing their views on evidence anyways, pyrotechnic ‘acts of god’ (hmmmm) might be the only way to sway thes .

Of course, I’m obligated to mention, at least once, the marvelous theory of Intelligent Falling.

“Things fall not because they are acted upon by some gravitational force, but because a higher intelligence, ‘God’ if you will, is pushing them down”

]]> By: sieber http://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=400&cpage=1#comment-1608 sieber Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:14:10 +0000 http://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=400#comment-1608 My colleague points out that many species of penguins have easier times reproducing and don't, for example, jeopardize their offspring nearly as much in the search for food. So why should the emperor penguin be held up as a model of intelligent design if these other, more efficient penguins are not? My colleague points out that many species of penguins have easier times reproducing and don’t, for example, jeopardize their offspring nearly as much in the search for food. So why should the emperor penguin be held up as a model of intelligent design if these other, more efficient penguins are not?

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