Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Take a Monkey to Lunch Day

Take a Monkey to Lunch Day

Do you know whose birthday today, February 12th, is? I had no idea until a phone call with a friend. If you say Abraham Lincoln you would be absolutely correct. But there was another historically significant individual who was born on the same day in the exact same year as ole Honest Abe. And who was that illustrious persona? (A little drum roll please) Ta da!!! — Charles Darwin. That’s right, today is Darwin Day! (hereafter known as Duh Day — emphasis on Day) C.D. would have been 199 today, if only he had been stronger in his evolution and not been naturally selected to die.

Yessiree, Mr. Natural Selection who, when he wrote his magnum opus entitled On the Origin of the Species, naturally selected not to mention one word about how all this actually originated. My, my! Slight oversight there, Chuck.

Soooo, wanting to give credit where credit is due, I wandered over to www.darwinday.org. Interesting website. One of the links on the home page takes you to a page that instructs you on how you can participate in Duh Day. The first suggestion is “Sponsor and produce a [sic] annual Darwin Day event.” (The particular Darwinian who wrote this has not yet evolved into high school grammar.) As I pondered what would be the best event to commemorate Duh Day, several ideas came to mind. But before I share my ideas here is the official Duh Day Challenge for both my readers: What event can you think of to properly pay homage to ole Chuck-E (for evolution)-Cheesy D?

Here are a few suggested events for Duh Day:
1. As per the title, take a monkey to lunch or work or school. Since you are only an ape in designer jeans (not with Designer genes), what a fitting way to celebrate.
2. Take someone weaker than you to the gas chamber. Oh, sorry, the Nazi’s already did that one. But if you are truly Darwinian, you in your superiority get to choose who the weaker ones are.
3. A little commercial here: The very best way to celebrate Duh Day will be to make plans now to take a friend to see the new movie Expelled when it comes out this spring.

Charles Colson has an interesting commentary on Duh Day at his website recognizing PETA as the perfect example of Darwinism carried to its logical convulsion, er conclusion. Here is a brief quote:

“Here’s where PETA comes in. PETA was celebrating Darwin Day long before there was an official Darwin Day. You can see it in everything it does—from its ads comparing the slaughter of animals to the Holocaust, to PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk’s famous statement that “When it comes to pain, love, joy, loneliness, and fear, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.”

What does that have to do with Darwinism? Everything. To a Darwinist, you see, there is no distinction between human beings and animals. We all came about by chance; we are made of the same “stuff,” and we all end up as nothing more than dust. Instead of recognizing humans as bearers of God’s image, Darwinism sees us as nothing more than competitively successful bipeds with opposable thumbs. Forget any talk of human dignity.” (http://www.breakpoint.org/listingarticle.asp?ID=7522)

OK, answer the challenge. What creative way can you think of to celebrate Duh Day? Post it here.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

What?!? I get no credit at all?!?

Anonymous said...

The "phone call with a friend" was my friend Spurgeon.

There's your credit

Merea said...

Hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I decided to take all A students and expelled the failing students. Happy Duh Day.

Anonymous said...

Great that you're blogging again...
In honor of Duh-Day being so close to my son's due date I think that when my son is born, instead of taking him home I am going to go through the nursery and pick out the biggest, healthiest, most alert and active baby and take that one home instead... just to ensure that I raise the best opportunity for our race and family to be succeeded...
what a crooked thought...

BG, Angela, Lauren and Keely Allen said...

Great article! I especially like the new holiday name - Duh Day!

Bret Capranica said...

I love it when you get inspired. And to think that I almost called you to see about having lunch that day. Well, we should still do lunch . . .

Anonymous said...

Hi Walter:
Great Blog and here are some fun Darwin games:

Duh!
Anti-Christ (Religion)
Republic
Waning
Intellectualist
Neophyte

"If Darwin fell dead in the forest with no one around except for God...would he have evolved??"

Brian

Anonymous said...

Great post Pastor Walter. Very funny and insightful. I once brought up the eugenics/nazi and evolution connection in a Cal St. Bakersfield classroom. I brought it up after the professor and a few students were telling me how much evil and war my narrow religious views had led to in history. So I brought up some of the things naturalistic evolutionary thought had led to in its young history. Anyway, I thought they would all see the light, but they instead shouted and laughed me down. So much for higher education and diversity.