All those car-bumper fish plates

[thatcrazycajun]

The other day, I saw a car ahead of me with a parody of the "Darwin" fish-with-legs emblem, which is itself a parody of the "Jesus" fish. It showed the Darwin fish being eaten by a larger fish labeled "Truth," clearly implying that Darwin's theories were to be excluded from consideration as "truth"—as if believing in evolution and believing in the Book of Genesis' six-day account of creation were mutually exclusive. (As Henry Drummond points out in Inherit the Wind, who's to say that "first day" didn't take ten million years?)

Such Biblical literalists tend to set my teeth on edge. But this guy, seems to me, has the last word on it all. (Note the last photo especially, with what I consider a great response to the "Truth-eating-Darwin" fish.)

Comments

[scruffycritter.livejournal.com]

I can understand someone saying Darwinism is wrong and wanting to make a rebuttal...

But if you use "Survival of the Fittest" as the metaphor, you are just not getting it.

[banjoplayinnerd.livejournal.com]

You have to believe a whole lot of amazing things to think that the Bible is the inerrant literal word of God, starting with believing that people whose culture and thought patterns are as different from ours as ours are from, oh, say a particularly advanced colony of emperor penguins, could write things that would speak directly to our twentieth-century hearts and minds. Oh, and you would have to believe that your particular translation from Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek handles that gap perfectly.

I don't have any problem believing that God could choose any way He wanted to bring humans into being, including natural selection. I also don't have any problem believing that the people of a distant Oriental culture would have trouble finding words and concepts that would describe how such things happened -- especially since their culture was based on poetry and imagery more so than realism and precision.

Hey, but don't mind me. I'm just this guy, you know?

[mshollie.livejournal.com]

I much prefer a "Dobbs" fish with a pipe sticking out of its mouth.

[robin-june.livejournal.com]

Speaking as someone who faces these things almost every day as I walk across my church parking lot, (and so could not be known to have removed the one that came on the last used car that we've bought - thank God it was a simple empty fish):

I think that the Truth Eating Darwin fish is a particularly Satanic incarnation of the lineage. How utterly opposed it is to what Jesus is actually translated to have preached!

Then again, I frequently take umbrage at the way too many of the Protestants I know spout anti-Christ-like sentiments right after loudly proclaiming themselves to be on His football team.

[kayshapero]

I'm rather fond of a modified "engineers Darwin Fish" (the one with a wrench in it's front flipper) with "God" in the middle of it. Must make one up sometime.

The T-rex version is hilarious.

And a couple of friends of mine took a course in Hebrew so as to read the Bible in the original. Translations have smoothed it out a bit too much - the original is every bit as incoherent as you'd expect from someone with no cosmological knowledge beyond the sky is up and the earth is down suddenly granted a vision of God creating the Universe. Heck, I'm pretty sure I don't have the knowledge to understand most of it. Maybe if he'd waited and given it to Hawking it might be more coherent. Maybe not. Coulda been six days of visions for all I can tell, each ending with a break for the poor guy to eat and sleep (evening and morning, a day).

I am. SO sick. Of the whole thing. You'd think the whole Bible consisted of the first chapters of Genesis. Badly translated. :(

[filkferengi]

I'm partial to two kinds: the GaFilke & the Leslie [Fish, that is]. ;)