Just as ID inspires art, so does Darwinism. If there is one place where the Darwinian creation story has been proven true, its in Photoshop skills of artist Daniel Lee. Lee uses the Photoshop software to combine human portraits with animal features in his Manimals exhibition.
by Denyse O’Leary
ARN correspondent
Illustrations
Here are some illustrations riffing off the popular myth of the “Ascent of Man”, and other evolution folklore:
A spoof of the biology text
Evolution of the Research Grant
For these graphics, hat tip to a correspondent from Singapore!
Cartoons
I’ve also collected these ID-related cartoons along the way:
(Note: The cartoons are not necessarily ID-friendly. Most attracted my attention because they showed genuine wit.)
Manwhile, here is an amazingly ugly cartoon used to promote Darwinism by a classical Darwin lobby!
.. and a Spoof!
For a spoof of Darwinism by ID-friendly wags, you can’t beat the Brites.org, its very name a spoof of The Brights – a group of self-consciously superior Darwinists.
Here are some current entries:
Professor of Pugilism Conway Moore attempts to savage ID-friendly astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez:
CM: … Look. Religious whackos who believe in Intelligent Design believe the earth is only 5000 years old because it says so in the Bible in the book of Guinness. By any standard…
ED: Do you mean Genesis ?
CM: Whatever.
ED: Dr. Gonzalez believes the universe is billions of years old and originated at the Big Bang.
CM: Oh. Nevertheless, …
The “I Love Lucy” petition, insisting that the now (apparently) discredited she-gorilla “Lucy” is really adorable Mum after all:
Professor Yoel Rak at the Sackler School of Medicine’s department of anatomy and anthropology said, “The presence of the morphology in both the latter and Australopithecus afarensis and its absence in modern humans cast doubt on the role of [Lucy] as a common ancestor.”
Rak’s statement infuriates Finch.
“If man didn’t evolve from apes,” offered Finch, “then I am an obnoxious pompous overeducated immature egocentric materialist with goo for brains.”
Also, this sendup of evolutionary psychology’s latest theory on the origin of humor – but the trouble is, evolutionary psychology is so inherently ridiculous that it is genuinely hard to spoof. Still, the illustration of “crude Ardepithecus humor” definitely works.
Toronto-based Canadian journalist Denyse O’Leary (www.designorchance.com) is the author of the multiple award-winning By Design or by Chance? (Augsburg Fortress 2004), an overview of the intelligent design controversy. She was named CBA Canada’s Recommended Author of the Year in 2005 and is co-author, with Montreal neuroscientist Mario Beauregard, of the forthcoming The Spiritual Brain: A neuroscientist’s case for the existence of the soul (Harper 2007).
by Denyse O’Leary
ARN correspondent
UCLA molecular biologists say they have converted protein sequences into classical music (though some say it’s only pop music):
On the biologists’ site , you can listen to the compositions and even submit your own genetic sequence and have it translated to music. The browser allows anyone to send in a sequence coding for a protein, which will then be converted into music and returned as a MIDI audio file. The research is published in Genome Biology, a major journal in the field of genomics.
This has all the potential in the world for schlock, of course, but on the other hand, one of the scientists found that a piano teacher understood it all better that way. Particularly scary is the sequence for the deadly disease, Huntington’s chorea.
Here are some other items I have posted at the Post-Darwinist and the Mindful Hack:
When they aren’t monitoring themselves very carefully, NASA people say the most surprising things … (more…)
by Denyse O’Leary
ARN correspondent
Just today, I received a most interesting note from a retired Australian poli sci professor Hiram Caton, late of Griffiths University, noting that the Darwin exhibition, developed at the American Museum of Natural History, is hitting the road, and may stop at a museum near you.
Caton explains,
You are well aware of my former colleague Dave Stove’s critique of Darwinism. We are alike in that we have no religious affiliation; also in that we do not believe that Darwinism can provide a basis for ethics or for ‘conservative’ politics, in the manner of Larry Arnhart.
At his site, Caton offers a most useful anti-docent, “Getting Our History Right: Six Errors about Darwin and His Influence,” documenting the following six errors:
For more go here.
Toronto-based Canadian journalist Denyse O’Leary (www.designorchance.com) is the author of the multiple award-winning By Design or by Chance? (Augsburg Fortress 2004), an overview of the intelligent design controversy. She was named CBA Canada’s Recommended Author of the Year in 2005 and is co-author, with Montreal neuroscientist Mario Beauregard, of the forthcoming The Spiritual Brain: A neuroscientist’s case for the existence of the soul (Harper 2007).
