Wow. To address the fact that McCain is too old and too similar to the current good ol’ boys, they go with a young woman. It addresses age and addresses change. I don’t know whether to feel insulted by this transparent strategy or stupid to be part of a society where such tactics are necessary. Are we so shallow this is what must be done to get elected?
I agree Nostradamus, it does seem rather transparent and a bit of an insult to one’s intelligence …but then whose intelligence is being insulted here. The whole election process is formulated around emotional appeals, on the same level as soap operas or rock concerts. The true battle ground, the policies, is nefariously avoided, for fear of either confusing the electorate and giving away too much to your enemy, or being held to a promise you can’t keep. Who was it who said democracy is the worst form of government, but it’s better than the rest?
Creationism is the Church’s attempt to combat the huge strides in science that has turned its empirical sights on ‘unquestioning faith’. I think the idea is that by taking a scientific approach, it turns the tables, and tries to demonstrate that science doesn’t have all the answers, which may be true, but it’s weakness is its insistence that the vacuum still needs to be filled by faith, viz; something that we don’t know exists or not, but until we do, it’s more comforting to stick with what has sort of worked in the past. The irony is that while denying evolution in a Darwinian sense, they neglect to take account of intellectual evolution, which is rooted heavily in our scientific traditions. My view is that the two serve different purposes and should not be waging a war, as it is only likely to damage ‘faith’ irreparably. That would be a shame.
