Tuesday, January 21, 2014

THE GONZO BLOG DOO-DAH MAN IS CONFUSED

The Gonzo Daily - Tuesday

There is something that I really don't understand. In fact, there are lots of things that I don't understand but this morning one thing in particular springs to mind. As regular readers will know, a few days ago I posted (extremely late) the January edition of my monthly webTV show On the Track. Several people have been kind enough to leave comments, including this one: 'i love CRYPTOZOOLOGY. Because its one more branch of science that proves how evolution is the biggest lie in human history. Cheers'. WTF? as Olivia, my younger stepdaughter would probably say.

Leaving aside the question of whether the earth was formed 4,000 years ago (it wasn't) and leaving theology entirely aside (I am a Christian, but this is neither the time nor the place to write about it), how does cryptozoology, which is the study of unknown animals as any fool knows, possibly say anything about the age of the earth, or whether or not there was any divine element in its construction? It doesn't! Last year there was a much-touted news item claiming that various American religious schools were teaching the existence of the Loch Ness Monster as a fact that 'disproves evolution.' Even if the theory that there is a giant, longnecked prehistoric reptile in the waters of the UK's biggest lake was true (and there can't possibly be - if there is anything there is the occasional enormous eel) it would tell us nothing about the age of the earth. There are plenty of animals that have survived pretty well unchanged from before the age of the dinosaurs, and cryptozoologists like me believe that others are still awaiting discovery. That is all.

Now I am going to retreat into my bunker and hide from the torrent of abuse that I am confident that this posting will bring me.
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