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Darwin as Santa

Darwin as Santa

Recently, I’ve noticed a strange trend with likers and followers of this blog.

A significant proportion of them are using their virtual space to promote their religious beliefs either to preach to the converted or to alert unbelievers to the errors of their ways.

If you are one of them, you know who you are.

I’m starting to wonder if they are reading something in between the lines of my posts.

Do they see me as a mortal sinner who needs to be saved?

Just to set the record straight I’d  like to state the following:

  • I am an atheist.

  • I do not believe in an afterlife.

  • I do not believe in Gods – interventionist or otherwise.

  • The evil in the world is man-made and can only be undone by man.

  • A person can be a spiritual being without being religious.

  • I don’t seek to impose my lack of belief on others and do not wish others to press their beliefs on me.

Any questions?

HIRST’S TASTE FOR BACON


Damien Hirst has been comissioned to produce the cover to 150th anniversary edition of Charle’s Darwin’s ‘Origin of the Species’.

Maybe they caught him on a day when he was lacking in fresh ideas because his ‘Human Skull In Space’ owes more than a little to fellow bad boy of art Francis Bacon.

Hirst has made no secret in the past of his admiration for Bacon so it wouldn’t have hurt him to acknowledge the source of his ‘inspiration’.

In Francis Bacon’s ‘Number VII from Eight Studies for a Portrait’ from 1953, there’s more flesh on the bone and no space age spots but the similarities are pretty obvious I think.

Hirst wrote about his excitement at getting the commission in a short piece for the Guardian. It’s worth checking the numerous caustic comments – not too many seem enthusiastic about the piece. I wonder why?

I submitted a copy of this post to the excellent site  ‘You Thought We Wouldn’t Notice’