Gledhill’s Law
Ruth Gledhill is The Times’ Religion Correspondent. She published a very long post midweek about how her cat is better treated than some humans in Haiti. Very valid point of course, but why, I wonder, did she take the completely unnecessary step of dissing us Creationists with this,
New research shows that they [i.e. animals] can even communicate across species. Quite apart from what this article tells us about Darwinian evolution, further undermining the absurd medievalist claims of creationist fundamentalists…
After I raised this issue in the comments, Creationism became the new topic for discussion. So I asked,
What is the law that states that every thread where Creationism is even barely mentioned ends up with that as the topic? You mean there’s not one? Well, let us honour our host. Let this phenomenon be known as “Gledhill’s Law”!
Of course, what Ms Gledhill was saying is patently nonsense, as I explained,
I communicate with my dogs all the time and vice versa. Doesn’t mean we have a common ancestor that evolved from pond slime.
You don’t think the Lord created the earth to be interactive?
Science has moved on a great deal since Darwin’s ideas made him famous. Life is far more complex than he could possibly have imagined.
Why would God, who obviously knows everything, including genetics, have played dice with evolution, when He could have created man in his own image precisely as He wanted us – and straight away – using His perfect knowledge?
Nevertheless, I give you Gledhill’s Law. Let’s get this baby into the language!
I spoke with one of 13 cats I currently care for earlier today (yes, 13, the number increases and decreases depending on how many people in the locality have realised that if they dump unwanted kittens on my doorstep, instead of in the canal, I will care for them until I can find a home that will have them).
His name is Dennis. He told me that he thinks that homosexuality is a sin and islam is not a religion as such, more a socio-political philosophy of world domination that is more trouble than enough. He also thinks that Creation is a self evident fact and even the beasts of the field know this. He enunciates very clearly, but his accent can sometimes be a little difficult. When we experience these difficulties in comprehension, we both just switch to Swedish and the problem is solved.
Why is it that gainsayers like Gledhill are more than rabid about their secularism, proselytizing as often and vociferously as possible, yet wish to deny me the opportunity to suggest an alternative, more than plausible viewpoint?
Dennis has an opinion on Mz Gledhill, but he is prone to the use of the most dreadful expletives when he gets upset so I think it best to finish on the fine words of wisdom gleaned from Mi-Mi, my 4 year old Persian Blue; ‘Mz Gledhill is a dozy mare’.
I think my dogs would like to visit your place! Mind you, they hate all this equality business. They don’t enjoy walkies so much, because they fear that cats will demand the right to chase them. The dogs can’t even climb trees. I told them not to worry about it – but, like your cats and the beasts of the field, they know about creation and that dogs chase cats, cats chase mice, men fall in love with women and the media is full of liberals.
And they have joined my Nestlé boycott, which means they don’t eat Winalot, Bakers or Bonios.
Purina brands.
Hey Stewart,
RE: Your assertion that dogs chase cats. Most of time, I’ll grant you that, but I have personally witnessed Sammy (imagine a black panther, but about 10% the size) give an extremely violent greyhound the thrashing of it’s life. The dog required surgery to repair the substantial lacerations to it’s face and belly. Sammy needed no more than a clean up of his opponent’s blood.
The world says ‘It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog’.
The Bible says, …the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong….time and chance happen to them all.’ Ecclesiates 9 v 11 KJV
Almost all fights, moral, spiritual, personal and even physical, are won or lost in the head, long before the first blow lands.
EV said
“His name is Dennis. He told me that he thinks that homosexuality is a sin ……..”
My cats, Poppy and Heidi think homosexuality is wonderful and it’s great that they have two Dads!
I resent these implied slurs on our slimy ancestors; that they’re not good enough for us.
I heard an interesting idea on the Horizon programme the other week: that we have the whole conception of the ‘hierarchy’ of life exactly the wrong way round and that animals, including us, exists only as transport mechanisms for viruses. That’s not too far from my view that social insects possess the most advanced consciousness on this planet.
Hi Jim,
I haven’t watched Horizon for years. Do they still play that annoying music throughout? Of course, the BBC is run by liberals, humanists, liberal humanists and humanist liberals, so you’re never going to get a balanced picture of science. It doesn’t surprise me if they value viruses more highly than humans.
Talking of slimy creatures, I have no. 4 in the series ‘Richard Dawkins Exposed’ coming very soon.
James Justice,
‘My cats, Poppy and Heidi think homosexuality is wonderful and it’s great that they have two Dads!’
That’s because they have had their delicate minds corrupted by the perverse influence of living with two gays, yet more evidence against allowing sexual deviants to adopt animals, let alone children.
Well, I don’t trust the politics of the BBC either Stewart but the chap I mentioned was an American biologist who seemed to me to take a pretty sane, balanced view.
If they still play the music I didn’t notice.
I’m sure Professor Dawkins wouldn’t object in the least to being called slimy. One should respect one’s ancestors.
English: ooh, you are awful. But I like you!
James Justice,
If the cats have two dads, who weaned them?
Stewart,
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet, I’m just warmin’ up