God’s way of fucking with the atheists I suppose. I can just imagine my unseen entity imaginary friend, throwing an arm around the should and saying, “remember when….” then we’d go out to the back porch, have us a cold one and watch all the Christian fuckers burn in hell. That’s what you get for believing in me, he’d say. Hard to disagree.

They took the music, the bastards.

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In Survival, you’ve got a cast and crew screaming, “I’m in a fucking George A. Romero zombie movie.” The actor’s take on his portrayal of  Darwin, the greatest scientist and philosopher who ever lived, “he’s on a tenner, don’t know nuthin’ much about him really, funny when you think about it.  My next job is chopping off my angel wings and prancing around with a machine gun. None of that here. Chop up a Barnacle, bloody strange looking mollusk if you ask me.  I just roll over and go to sleep with me misses, and a dead girl wanders about a bit, think she’s supposed to be my daughter. Bloody nonsense and a bore really.”

In Survival, you’ve got guys laying in frozen ground, tearing through a frozen body with their teeth – and loving it. And I must say, Romero did indeed find a unique and interesting way to tear a body apart.

In Creation, Darwin tears apart a barnacle and does the horror show with some birds. Also in the Darwin special features, one of the consultants for the film did let it drop he, “wasn’t aware of anything quite like that.” A polite way of saying, it’s a bunch of bollocks(bullshit), in’nit. Stepping back a bit, Creation reminded me more of  “A Beautiful Mind,” than it did of Darwin’s life, which may have been the point, – want to play the wife of a tormented scientist, Ms. Connelly, there might be another award in it for you – can you play Christian angst?” “Well, my husband likes tenners and so do I, what did he do exactly?”

Actually, it’s not entirely the doof who played Darwin’s fault, (if you think I’m naming the bloke who’s banging Ms. Connelly, you are in for a sorry surprise), because as you may recall, I rub elbows with the science boys and girls myself, so I am intimately acquainted with the pathological ignorance those working in biological science have when it comes to the foundation of their own science.

From what I’m told it isn’t that uncommon to find a young earth creationist working as a geologist and while most biologists can see that absurdity, they aren’t so good at looking at their version of the madness. For instance, the barnacle, is it mollusk or crustacean? A free-swimming crab, everyone know that, unless you have a job in biological science, then if did know that, you wouldn’t have a job in science, or if you did happen to know, you learned it after you got your job, from a condescending swine such as myself.

The bottom line is, it is unreasonable for a working scientist not to know what a barnacle is and why it is important to the theory of evolution – the foundation of all biological science and thus the basis of their paycheck.  Hint, guess what critter Darwin used to establish proof of the transmutation of species.

And yes, watching Darwin and zombies on the same night, it is safe to assume Lynda is out of town.