A Curious Duality
Fundamentalist religion posits that the world is
intelligently designed, yet fundamentalism itself evolves along Darwinian
lines, with random variation and natural selection. These religions choose
their beliefs at random, and those with the fittest beliefs survive. This can
be seen in the capricious irrationality of fundamentalist doctrine and
practice, combined with the unexpected practicality of those irrational
doctrines and practices.
Meanwhile, science posits that the world evolves along
Darwinian lines, with random variation and natural selection; yet science is
(at least putatively) intelligently designed!
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