{if FALSE} Trackback: Bronowski's Birthday Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if TRUE} {/if} #56952: — 01/08  at  01:09 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} I think it is worse. Creationism also say that th' random execution yet _had t' be_ executed, or th' god would have been out o' work.

That th' forces o' evolution have led t' life on this world, as opposed t' say th' moon, is neither completely accidental nor entirely certain. That life itself has developed t' what it is today, is as Bronowski said, neither completely accidental nor entirely certain.

That is both th' fact and th' beauty that creationism tries t' murder, by design. {/if}

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{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} I were bein' lucky enough t' have a Social Studies teacher in High School that showed 'The Ascent o' Man' in class.

Jacob Bronowski's passion is as deeply movin' and spiritual as any religious plea. Those remain very special days fer me( priceless understandin's I aquired then). Bronowski is almost immediately what I think o' when I recall high school! {/if}

{if FALSE} Trackback: Bronowski's Birthday Tracked on: () at {trackback_date format="%Y %m %d %H:%i:%s"} {/if} {if TRUE} {if FALSE} {/if} #57000: — 01/08  at  10:37 PM {/if}
{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} If ye guys want t' see th' Ascent o' Man again (I have watched it many times, and I cannot do anythin' but sin' its endless praises) it is available on DVD in th' UK (through th' UK Amazon) or fer everyone fer download on various bittorrent sites, pass the grog, pass the grog! It's pretty easy t' find. Ahoy! I make it a point o' sharin' it with as many people as possible due t' its status as th' single best thin' e'er placed on television. And PZ, I will gladly make ye a copy o' me DVD's if ye wish! {/if}

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{if FALSE} {/if} {if TRUE} By coincidence, th' book recently surfaced in our house (if ye e'er saw th' size and chaos o' our domestic library, ye'd savvy what I mean by "surface", and why even largish hardcovers can disappear fer years). It's got a sequence o' frames from that movin' scene where Bronowski dips his hands into th' mud o' Auschwitz. And swab the deck, by Blackbeard's sword! I recall watchin' much o' th' series, though can't recall a great deal o' it now. <sigh> Yet another book I should re-read......

The book were bein' a Xmas or birthday gift that year (1973 or thereabouts?), and were bein' one salvo o' an on-goin' conflict betwixt me (a newly-minted young fundamentalist) and me agnostic father (yes, me teenage rebellion took a very unconventional form). I weren't quite stupid enough t' buy into th' whole YECist line, but I weren't quite comfortable with evolution either -- especially when couched in progressivist terms. I think me Dad read more into th' term "Ascent" than were bein' perhaps there -- he had some vaguely progressivist-vitalist notions, which I think he got from G.B.Shaw, and a bucket o' chum. The ornery cuss were bein' just auld enough t' have been influenced by th' remnants o' th' vitalist tradition. {/if}