q and a last night delivered a lame panel that included richard dawkins who ate the minds of his co panelists, a woman rabbi from sydney who was very nice, quite bright but offered nothing revolutionary or insightful into the debate although she was at least more honest and less defensive than the others, a lib and labour politician who came out with the usual respect other peoples views even if the views represent the insane or deluded fools who think science is a mythological domain, an independent family first politician with the intelligence and personality of a newt and an australian of the year man who was a phycologist who generally didn't want to upset anyone, it was incredible to watch the level of discussion sink to the same old crap dawkins protagonists throw at him, not one original challenging question. even my own question, would the intelligence behind the universe not create the concept of evolution was barely answered adequately. the great minds of australia are either dormant or asleep, come on there was so much to discuss and yet we are given the weakest and most dumbest ideas and perceptions from the most unimaginative idiots. poor richard dawkins i felt very sad that he was having to tolerate these fools, and despite my clash with his ideas found myself in agreement with most of what he said.
i do think the rabbi was pretty cool in mentioning that the human brain could not really conceptualise god and that she could only really deal with here and now, but still quite a limited frame of reference generally.
to harp back to the people challenging dawkins by saying he is disrespectful was an indication of a society that truly is insanely in the grip of this idea of ideological relativism. how can evolution possibly occur? it's like the fucking birds wishing they were dinosaurs again.