Mike Seaver and the Croc-o-duck

You could make an argument that it doesn't really matter that three of the Republican contenders for the party's nomination for President don't believe in evolution. The president should concern him/herself with foreign affairs and lowering gas prices rather than science, and besides, these three have as much chance as winning the nomination as Enza the Supermodel does as becoming the next Pope. Penn (yes, the magician) makes a partially convincing argument that the people that need to 'believe' in evolution (doctors, scientists, etc) do and that is what is most important, since these are the people that are going to save our lives and make us live longer. (This was before Penn's hosting of Identity which makes Deal or No Deal look like a PhD thesis). It's a return to the Middle Ages, where a select few are educated and steer society while the rest of the masses lead dreary, uninformed lives and burn women at the stake for being witches... except in modern times we have digital TV!

But doesn't it chill you to the bone that three, educated grown men in prominent positions of power don't accept a theory that has been at the core of scientific advancement for the last 100 years? And doesn' t it make you want to alternatively laugh and cry that these three men can throw their Jughead crowns in the ring for the most powerful position in the world and they are not chased out of the room by the deafening peals of hysterical laughter?

And now Mike Seaver has joined the argument, appearing on Nightline to offer 'scientific' proof of God. His counter-point to evolution was a picture of a duck with a crocodile's head, which I won't even comment on.

A few years ago I was having a discussion with an Australian (meaning more than a few beers were involved) and I was griping that if some people were going to not 'believe' in evolution, why stop there? Why not 'disbelieve' in gravity? Nuclear power? Magnets? And he told me that there are some people who do, who believe that everything that happens is connected to a supreme power, so for example, if I drop this coaster on the floor, God intervened and made the coaster fall down, not up. Using this 'logic' than, we can blame God for all of our hangovers, a theory that I enthused the following morning.