I was reading this gem about human evolution, and I even commented in the thread. I scratched the surface of the problems with that article in my comments there, but there is sooo much wrong with what's being mulled over there I had to link you few remaining die-hard readers to it.I'm willing to concede evolution for the sake of the discussion, btw. But one thing this discussion completely overlooks is that the way we make babies today in almost 99.99999% of the cases is by having sex -- not through some process akin to researching and then writing and defending a doctoral thesis on the desirable genetic markers in a set of single-source female gametes. I mean: my kids were not the product of some fully-reasoned process by which my wife and I thought about all the likely needs they would have and thereby first provided for all of them, then instituted scientific trial to create their perfect encoded sequence.
My children are a product of love -- and I hope yours are, too. And here's the crazy thing about love: I loved them before I knew them.
Discuss.
As you undoubtedly noticed, I like comics. I wouldn't call myself a "fan boy" because I don't give a flying FOOM what they are worth. That said, almost all the images on my blog are scanned from comics I own -- so they are scanned from comics I own and are used under what I assume is 
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I love to see Science betray itself by showing its biases. Lewis' Abolition of Man (as well as the Space Trilogy) pretty much predicted all this.
As far as the childmaking thing goes, the Bible calls having sex "knowing." There's probably more to that than we imagine. God seems to choose His words carefully.
Perhaps these scientists have never "known" anything.
FIRST!
Aww, crap.
"They won't spent $3 on condoms, but they'll spend real money to "select" the genetic make-up of their children? Really?"
VINTAGE TURK!
(oh, and the word verification I have to type in is "china." I'll give you a moment to let the irony sink in.)
Zach,
The FIRST! shall be last.
There. You've been holified!
HA! It's already catching on! :D
You ruin everything, Bartels. The metaphor I have to drive that home is so earthy, I'll only share it with you when we have lunch next week in Detroit.
> You ruin everything, Bartels.
That's my spiritual gift.
An utter pleasure, and I mean that to the Nth degree, on seeing you post here again. As always your comments are pithy and to the point sadly those on that thread still didn't get it.
Children are the products of love how profound a statement especially in light of the fact that we reflect what God did in the ultimate. He loved us before we existed yet he knew us.
Thanks Frank that is an excellent thought for the entire week.
I can't even think about that article before I've had my morning soma.
So a few years from now when I tell my daughters that I bought her from the hospital and want a refund, she might actually believe me!
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