I am well aware that no one actually reads this page. And the few readers I had when I started have long since gone, but here's another post, just so that I have it somewhere where I can refer to it later.

I've been reading Darwinian Fairytales by Australian author David Stove. I'm really enjoying the book as it pokes a good deal of fun at Darwinism. ("Wait, are you saying Darwin was *GASP* WRONG?!") If you find yourself asking this question, it is very likely that you belong to the religion known as "Scientism".

Anyway, I'll spare the details of the book except to say that I just read a section that discusses what we can possibly learn by answering questions of the type: "Where did humans come from?". Sure, we can look for an answer and modern Science would probably tell us what we all know: Humans evolved from monkeys/apes. Fine. Science hasn't yet told us HOW this happened, but this seems to be OK with most people in this religion of Science.

However, let's say that this question was answered. Let's say we found the proverbial "missing link" that solved all of the problems about where we came from. Swell. Now what? What could we possibly do with this information? The only reasonable answer is: OK... so where did the monkeys/apes come from? I think I need not continue down this path, but anyone who has spent time with (or been) a six-year-old is well aware of what happens when we keep asking "Why?" when we get an answer.

So there's really nothing that can be gained from learning where we came from biologically. I'll go so far as to argue that this sentiment even extends to Physics. Why bother asking if the moon was spun off or knocked off by a meteor? Where did the meteor come from? Where did the mass that we now call Earth come from? "The Big Bang", you say? Yes, how convenient. We have just as much information about the universe and this "Big Bang" as we do that the universe was created by an all-powerful God.

Garbage.

If we really want to know about humanity, then we need to not ask "from where did it come?" but "what is it now?". We're so concerned with finding out our origins as if it will explain everything about us that we haven't bothered to look at where we are! Does anyone realize how little we know about the human body?! We don't know how the brain works. We don't know what causes many maladies. We can look billions of miles into the sky to see stars as they were long before humans ever existed, and yet we can't peer into a living human body without killing it.*

Good job, Science!

* If you don't agree with this statement, ask yourself candidly if you would be willing to 1) be cut open and left open for long periods of time, or 2) to live your life under and X-Ray machine, or 3) spend your life in an MRI machine, or 4) to be pumped full of radioactive juice that they use to scan you, etc.....