I am a scientist. I thought Richard Dawkins description of the selfish gene was superb (but I wish he would shut up about religion), the description of an organism as a means of making more copies of DNA is pretty useful for some things. But Roger has a good point about our favorite organisms. But why pick on evolutionary biologists in particular.

When making love, don’t be an evolutionary biologist. Sure. But also don’t be or a marxist historian, or a fund manager, or a conservative columnist. Just be a man.

Most atheists and more than a few scientists don’t like the fact that there are truth’s they can’t ever deconstruct nor realize beyond their own fundamentalist preconceptions based on Darwinian reductionism.
When they try they just look silly and ridiculous.

They can’t grasp the truth that even science, properly utilized, has limitations in regards to Beauty and Goodness, to name a few of many. Self-evident truth’s are lost on them, because they believe their own manufactured “evidence” cannot be surpassed.

That’s just warped! And before my second cup of tea! It’s enough to curdle the lemon.

An interesting twist to this occurs with men who HAVE hair, but shave it off regularly as a sign that they are somehow aligned with neo-punk culture and so on.

This falls right into the hands of men who are BEGINNING to lose their hair. They shave it ALL so as to give the (false) impression that they really do have a full head of hair…so much in fact, that they practically HAVE to shave it off.

The avant garde French “philosopher”, Michael Foucault, is an interesting sub-species of this no-hair phenomenon. He actually had no hair PLUS he didn’t sport a beard. But his sexual potency was never in question, so that explains his appearance.

Men don’t ordinarily shave their legs. Not that it matters to men after the age of 55 or so, because at about that time, the hair falls off naturally from their legs leaving an unattractive shining skin like the underside of an eel or something.

The full story of men and hair has never been told in full. It would make an interesting study.

Actually, what the stubble really does is to darken the face so that incidental light does not glint off the chin so easily. This made it easier for our early ancestors to attack others and prey in the dark in the moonlight. There were no lights back then, remember, so they could only hunt at night near a full moon. The proof is self evident. We all know how women go for us night hunters (my stubble is especially manly and I have to beat them off with a stick).

This is as good a point as any to tout David Stove’s book “Darwinian Fairytales”, a work which Mr Kimball has written about many times before. Absolutely essential reading.

The printed and published word is so neatly packaged and insulated by, not only, the cover and binding, but also the walnut-panelled offices that sell it and the halls of education that endorse it. Private rejection fails to satisfy.

These quotes remind me of how much Steven J. Gould is missed.