1. Censoring Sir David

Comment #69870 by Chaeron on September 13, 2007 at 3:24 am

(damn... that's just too long) >.<

2. Censoring Sir David

Comment #69869 by Chaeron on September 13, 2007 at 3:23 am

First of all, for all you joking people... there is this reknowned and red-list part of the dutch community who are actually Biologists, myself included.

And yes, there are more people among this community who actually object against this kind of stuff! So what do you do, you write an e-mail and say: "Plz, pretty plz with sugar on top, can me and my gf (also biologist) line up for your petition?" Next thing that happens is that your email get returned, undeliverd [spam-stuff-blocker or something] (and no I didn't use hotmail!). So far for your well-wanted opinion.
So in fact, there are far more than 300 dutch biologists oppossing this. Which, mind you, is a good thing!

As for Sir David's comment, I did not quite well understand why he's so calmy respond the way he did. Although I can imagine he couldn't be bothered. And I think he's absolutely right!

For these people (EO and EO-watchers), and I do know the EO from zapping it at the moment I see their icon, it doesn't matter what Sir David or the BBC say, or most importantly, what common sense and science have to say.
In the end, you can be just as fanatical in convincing these people evolution does happen, as they are convincing us that it doesn't happen. Only thing that seems important is that in the end, how long it may take, fact will always be separated from fiction. And actual beliefs and religions will too be separated from factual science.

Ergo, you can slam your head as hard against the TV showing the dutch version of 'Living with Mammals' as often as you want, trying to convince non-straighforward thinking people that they are 'wrong, or, and this is my vision of the matter, you can post it in the daily newspaper, bring the subject in national news, and let people make up their own minds.
Those with common sense will already know or will think things through and reach the more factual conclusion. The part of the population that says: 'Ah well, I don't know', will still don't know or care. And the other religious part of the community will still believe that the earth is flat and evolution is a movie with guy from X-files.

And besides, ever realized how much of the factual daily newsbroadcast is edited? Nobody's making a fuzz about that because we know.

So, if you don't mind, I'm back to my articles, excel-files and other nerdy stuff I have to do!

Cheers!
P.