I was reading this piece on Darwin and Intelligent Design, and one line stood out:
So what would Charles Darwin have to say about the dust-up between today’s evolutionists and intelligent designers?
Probably nothing.
Shy and reclusive, Darwin disliked argument. He also was plagued by poor health. In particular, he suffered from terrible flatulence that made him reluctant to venture out in public.
Even after he became one of the most famous and controversial men of his time, he was always content to let surrogates argue his case.
I am not sure the Chicago Tribune has accurately depicted who suffers when an individual has flatulence.
Demdude
Is this where the “Big Bang” Theory got it’s start?
Vlad
Heh. Not quite as good as Tycho Brahe’s elk, but pretty good nonetheless.
kenB
Considerate people do indeed “suffer” from flatulence — the retention effort can be considerable, the search for appropriate emission sites annoying.
jobiuspublius
There is no more potent flatulance than the one that even the “flatutor” suffers from terribly. He never did obtain a professorship did he?
Pb
Darwin always was an old fart…
rayabacus
Heh, heh.
rayabacus
OOPS. Wrong paste.
Heh, heh.
Preview, preview.
sean
Darwin was on to something. We have evolved. I no longer “suffer” from flatulence. In fact, I quite enjoy it sometimes.
Mr Furious
Maybe that’s what forced him out to sea for years. No one around to point out who “dealt it” on the Galápagos.
sean
Mr. Furious brings up a good point – maybe Darwin went to the Galapagos to perfect the “turtle” technique*
* for the uninitiated, it is similar to the “Dutch Oven”
Krista
As do those around you, no doubt.
Jim Allen
If his flatulence made a sound like “honda-honda”, it would indicate an addiction to absinthe.
Because we all know that absinthe makes the fart go “honda”.
circlethewagons
Sean, it seems to me to be a variation on the “crop dusting” technique.
Only with a boat.
Dispersal on the high seas…
farmgirl
Jim — I am *so* glad I swallowed my coffee before reading your comment.
docG
Do you suppose the Intelligent Designer has the designees pull her finger on occasion?
goonie bird
Evolutionists are so full of balonie they could start their own delicatesen and so full of bull they would moo and so full of malarkey they could lie on a mile high stack of bibles
skip
No wonder Cheney spends all that time hiding underground at Raven Rock! I assume the place has plenty of charcoal filters given its proximity to the PA coal mines.