hello george,
Although I do find evolution theory more intuitive then creationism
I still got a kick out of this story.
erin
"The Only Game In Town"
by Kurt Vonnegut
One time my painter daughter, Edith, having become a grownup with her
own kids
and so on, blurted out something she had kept bottled up inside her for years.
?I hate Cezanne,? she said. I did the same sort of thing with my big
brother Bernie, dead now, an MIT Ph.D. physical chemist who got
interested in
the weather. I was maybe fifty, which would have made him sixty. And we were
under the whale that was suspended from a ceiling in the American Museum of
Natural History. And I suddenly blurted out ?I don?t believe in Darwin?s
theory of natural selection. Do you?? That was like yelling in the Sistine
Chapel that the paintings were all a lot of bushwa.
As a professional storyteller, I told Bernie, I couldn?t imagine
a series of
family crises in which the only survivors were those whose butts blinked
on and
off, as in the case of lightning bugs, or who had buzzers in their tails and
hypodermic needles loaded with nerve poison in their mouths, as in the
case of
rattlesnakes.
There under the whale, Bernie and I played out a scene not
unlike the one in
Dostoyevsky?s Brothers Karamazov, in which Alyosha, the man of faith,
responds to the bitter antagonism of his rationalist brother, Ivan. He hears
Ivan out and then kisses him. Bernie didn?t kiss me, but he did put a
hand on
my shoulder and stare deep into my eyes. And then he said, ?It?s the only
game in town.?
Many readers may be familiar with the old joke on which my brother?s
?kiss,? if I may call it that, was based. A guy with the gambling sickness
loses his shirt every night in a poker game. Somebody tells him that the game
is crooked, rigged to send him to the poorhouse. And he says, haggardly, ?I
know, I know. But it?s the only game in town.?
>
>Is that so? I'm a Seventh-day Adventist, and not "by birth" either.
>Rather I had what seemed to me a "mystical" experience (see William James'
>"Varieties of Religious Experience") that confirmed for me that I should
>observe the Old Testament Sabbath, which in turn is considered a memorial
>to the week of Creation.
>Two things I'd like to ask this group, the first hypothetical: Have you
>pondered the "Quality", or lack thereof, of a lot of the arguments upon
>which the Theory of evolution is based, or do you just "faithfully" accept
>them?
>And my second question to which I am looking forward to answers from hicks
>and non-hick's alike: Wherein does the Quality exist in Christianity?
>Happy Sabbath!
>
>George "Ignoramus" Jempty
>
>PS....before you go judging me as a hypocrite because of my sarcasm, you
>might consider the many writings of the Apostle Paul ;)
>
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