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The Wheel of Ill Fortune
My Creationist friends aren't going to appreciate this, but Florida--South Florida in particular--is a Darwinian environment for people and dwellings.
It is a rare building indeed that does not fall victim to such local perils as windstorms, the Formosan termite, the Cuban Death's Head cockroach, tuberculosis-inducing mold, and a host of other natural nightmares.
As if that weren't enough, we have to face brimstone-laden panels of Chinese-made gypsum board, predatory lending institutions and additional man-made threats to home and hearth, like entire neighborhoods turning into ghost towns. Only the toughest humans and domiciles survive this brutal natural selection process.
Back to Creationism: Anyone who really believes in the doctrine of "Intelligent Design" should take a good look at how this region developed. It'll make a Big Bang theorist out of anybody.
CHAN LOWE
Comments
I have been a survivor of south florida for some 30 odd years. This was a great place to live up until Mariel.
Posted by: Frank in Wilton Manors | April 10, 2009 6:50 AM
It's been said that ideas, as well as people, can be judged by the kind of enemies they make. I have heard Intelligent Design denounced by both secularists and Creationists, the latter because ID allows for things like evolution and the Big Bang. The Big Bang followed a very well-crafted process. In fact, one astrophysicist who helped develop that idea was Georges LeMaitre, a friend of Einstein, who was also a Jesuit priest.
Two other people who believed in ID were Newton and Einstein himself. FWIW, I have an MA in mathematics and did the course work for a comparable degree in physics.
Posted by: Edgar R. Schneider | April 10, 2009 9:14 AM
Chan says:
Thanks, Edgar, for your lucid comment. It's nice to know the blog attracts such well-educated readers.
I also understand that Einstein had a tremendous sense of humor, which is probably a prerequisite for fully comprehending the workings of the universe, and who/what may or may not have created it.
Posted by: Chan | April 10, 2009 11:11 AM