From: bivalve (bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 11:04:47 EDT
> I wonder, did the Higher Critics of Scripture evolve the
technique of the "Just So Story" by themselves, or did they borrow it
from the Evolutionary Biologists? Or could it have been the other
way around? Or, as the Cladists would have us include, was it an
example of Convergent Evolution? In any case, we should never lack a
Naturalistic explanation for its Origin.<
Actually, it appears to be a case of agressive mimicry, in which a
harmful form disguises itself as something harmless or beneficial,
like a wolf in sheep's clothing. In the present case, it is
Enlightenment scepticism masquerading as science.
Dr. David Campbell
Old Seashells
University of Alabama
Biodiversity & Systematics
Dept. Biological Sciences
Box 870345
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA
bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com
That is Uncle Joe, taken in the masonic regalia of a Grand Exalted
Periwinkle of the Mystic Order of Whelks-P.G. Wodehouse, Romance at
Droitgate Spa
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