2004-11-19
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Following W. Gibson in his blog, you may have to include the " sovereign Christian State of South Carolina" in the picture:
(Sunday, November 14, 2004 http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2004_11_01_archive.asp)
(Sunday, November 14, 2004 http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2004_11_01_archive.asp)
Indeed! I like his observation of the genesis of Creationism:
"Re Creationism, I must point out an unfortunate subtext that's no longer quite so obvious. Having grown up in the previous iteration of the rural American south, I know that what *really* smarted about Darwin, down there, was the logical implication that blacks and whites are descended from a common ancestor. Butt-ugly, but there it is. That was the first objection to evolutionary theory that I ever heard, and it was a very common one, in fact the most common. That it was counter to Genesis seemed merely convenient, in the face of an anthropoid grand-uncle in the woodpile.
Like the man says: Look at those cavemen go"
"Re Creationism, I must point out an unfortunate subtext that's no longer quite so obvious. Having grown up in the previous iteration of the rural American south, I know that what *really* smarted about Darwin, down there, was the logical implication that blacks and whites are descended from a common ancestor. Butt-ugly, but there it is. That was the first objection to evolutionary theory that I ever heard, and it was a very common one, in fact the most common. That it was counter to Genesis seemed merely convenient, in the face of an anthropoid grand-uncle in the woodpile.
Like the man says: Look at those cavemen go"
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