Friday, 4 November 2011

3. Gregor Mendel

Gregor Mendel (July 20, 1822 – January 6, 1884) Wikipedia tells us that this fairytale believing chump was...

'...an Austrian scientist and Augustinian friar who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the new science of genetics. Mendel demonstrated that the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants follows particular patterns, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance. Although the significance of Mendel's work was not recognized until the turn of the 20th century, the independent rediscovery of these laws formed the foundation of the modern science of genetics.'

A scientist who believes in God! Well! Can you imagine such a thing! Whatever credibility he once had has now been smashed to smithereens because he actually believed that there was an author of all life! Hello! McFly! Get real, Gregor! Science and faith are totally incompatible, remember! We know its the case because its a scientific fact! Darwin proved it! And anyway, if Darwin didn't prove it, Dawkins did! Thank God for Professor Steve Jones, that's all I can say!  It's all in the genes and believing genes are clearly genes that have not evolved properly! Genetic God-fearing Augustinian nutjob! Where's the evidence, fruitcake!?

4 comments:

  1. " It's all in the genes and believing genes are clearly genes that have not evolved properly! Genetic God-fearing Augustinian nutjob! "


    Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Brilliant.

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  3. Mmmm. Let me get this straight. Because Gregor Mendel believed in God he was intellectually inferior? And yet his work was not understood by his contemporaries for 35 years and is now the basis of our modern understanding of genetics. Is that what you are trying to say? "Science and faith are totally incompatible"? As Carl Sagan wrote "Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual."

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