Comedian Josh Goguen

Posts Tagged ‘evolution’

Intelligent Design sans God

I’m always amazed at how heated some people become when evolution vs. intelligent design/creation.
 
“I didn’t come from no damn monkey!”
“You sure about that?”
 
For me, evolution makes sense. However, I’m also willing to listen to the other side because I’m of the mind that the fact anything exists makes no sense. I’m comfortable with both ideas. [...]


Are we really smarter?

“The bible was written by people. PEOPLE!!!! and these folks were even dumber than we are today.”
 
I’ve heard David Cross say that before and I recently just read it in another place. I like David Cross, I think he’s funny, but that statement bothers me. Now, I’m not going to try to argue for the [...]


Rambling.

I asked some friends a few days ago the following question:
 
If aliens from outer space landed and began to live among us, how many generations would go by before it was not big deal?
 
Does anyone else find it interesting how quickly we seem to adapt to new things so quickly? Television, cars, and velcro are [...]


Dumb and young.

A few days ago, I heard a story about a 17 high school students in Massachusetts who are pregnant and none of the girls is older than 16. Apparently, they wanted to raise their babies together and feel like adults. For some strange reason, while thinking these girls were morons, I wasn’t really angered by [...]


I do read.

I just finished reading a book called The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis. I found it to be an extremely fascinating theory about a water environment being the turning point in primate evolution that eventually led to man. It was full of interesting facts about how we humans have so much in common with other species that [...]


Dog food?

I was listening to a comercial for a highly touted brand of dog food. The advertisment gave some of the ingredients for the dog food and I got curious. I went to the website for this stuff and looked at the full list of ingredients. 
 
Here’s just the first several:
 
Water sufficient for processing, beef, chicken, liver, [...]