Monday, August 31, 2009

The Reality Fish

We are all familiar with the Jesus fish, Darwin fish, and its many endless forms most beautiful. Two of my favorites can be found heah and neah.

However, none of these anti-Christian variants really capture what I think is the most essential point about the "war" between science and religion: wishful thinking doesn't change reality, no matter how hard you believe, and that isn't science's fault. These various emblems showing Jesus fish being eaten by dinosaurs, fucked by Darwin fish etc... make it seem as though science is out to get religion. It isn't, anymore than the objective of the construction company building an overpass through your neighborhood is to destroy your house. It may happen in the course of things, but that isn't the ultimate goal. You was just in the way when we was a comin' through. Nothing personal.

Consequently, I have made my own contribution to the Jesus fish pantheon, which I feel captures the real essence of the science-religion conflict:
From Paleo Errata

Is it not beautiful? Someone please make it for me and send me one.

Oh yeah, and check this out.

LNJ

5 comments:

ReBecca Foster said...

Are you wanting a car emblem or just anything, like a sticker? I can do a sticker.

Bill Parker said...

Why am I not surprised that it vaguely looks like an aetosaur?

220mya said...

I like the new banner photo - but something is messed up with the overlying text, at least for me (I'm using Mozilla Firefox 3.5.2 on a PC with Windows XP Pro).

Casey said...

I'd purchase a sticker or magnet version of that...very nice.

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