As much as I hate to love Christopher Hitchens his recent Slate piece, reprinted on RichardDawkins.net [1], is a lovely inversion of logic, the kind that makes me happy to see the world anew for a few moments.
I'm reminded also of a recent poll on Integral Praxis [2]. The question 'What do you think is the future of our species?' elicited a response of "Transcendence" from 52% of the respondents.
All very nice, and I'm sure almost all of them would favour evolution over creationism, but perhaps this is merely a vestigial belief from the days of creationist thought? Why do only 20% think "Extinction" is a more likely fate for the human race? Belief in "transcendence" not only sounds new-agey religious, but it totally smacks of wishful-thinking... let's face it, no other species, ever, has survived for more than a 100,000 years, why would we?
That's my daily rant done. As you were.
[1] - 'Losing Sight of Progress' by Christopher Hitchens - Slate - RichardDawkins.net
[2] - http://integralpraxis.blogspot.com/
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