Re: The Origin of the Specious


John Wilkins wrote:
<whomever@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I know that titles are't copyrighted, but this is about the 4th time I
have seen "Origin of the Specious," once even from an
anti-evolutionist, who probably deliberately ripped it off from:

http://reason.com/9707/fe.bailey.shtml

I created the "Origin of the Specious" animation. I'd never seen or
heard the title before making this piece, but it didn't require much
effort in naming it. The title is an obvious pun on Darwin's "Origin of
Species." Apparently it was too obvious; I was slightly annoyed when a
Google search for the title returned over 10,000 results.

Darwin's critics have probably been using the same pun since his book
was first published. Regardless, Hubbard's rewrite of evolution
certainly deserves to be recognized as specious.

I haven't seen the pun in any of the nineteenth century literature, but
I'd be surprised in nobody thought of that. "How stupid not to have
thought of that pun"...

They couldn't Cerf the web in the 19th century either.


--
John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biohumanities Project
University of Queensland - Blog: evolvethought.blogspot.com
"He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor,
bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious."

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