Philosophy is nanofibral strands of science trying to rebuild the missing tissue in our knowledge from wounds gouged by religion. Seriously. It deals with stuff science doesn’t cover yet because we can’t agree on it, half the world is still stuck with a religious account of that stuff, and the scientific half haven’t settled on their position yet. And while evolution is now considered science by the entirety of the civilised world, at the time it was philosophy. The missing bit in our knowledge was how we came about. The wound religion caused was the concept of an intelligent designer, which is so close to the truth that it wasn’t until very recently that we really tried to come up with an alternative. One hundred and fifty thousand years of collaborative thought, progress and communication amounted to “Maybe some guy made us?” Then, little more than a century ago, some grumpy-looking bald guy sat on an island, looked at the animals and said “Whoa, wait a minute!”
It’s a disgrace. I’m ashamed to be a member of this moronic species. One hundred and fifty thousand years before anyone worked out how we got here. Pathetic.
Charles Darwin was the start of intelligent life on planet Earth. 1859 was the year mankind achieved sentience.
SenatorPalpatine: As sad as I am about it, I can't really argue with that. Well I can't argue with the idea. Darwin certainly wasn't the start of intelligent life, but we are a moronic species. The Greek and Roman thinkers, and the Renaissance thinkers were the start of intelligent life, with their logic and scientific method and stuff. To bad about he dark ages inbetween.
Jimmy: Charles Darwin is so smart that he's DEAD. Face the facts, as brilliant as some men may think they are, their destiny is the same --- death. There is absolutely NOTHING any scientist or any man on any island can do about that.... It will always be a constant.
Let Tom Francis tell you all what it's like, being male, middle-class and white.
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