Yes!
I Said Polo Ponies!
 I have
mentioned this before but I recently went to see
"Creation", the new movie about Charles
Darwin, and was in intrigued enough
by
the unusual angle
they took on his life to read the book the movie
was based on. It's called "Darwin,
His Daughter, and
Human
Evolution"
by Randal Keynes.
Far from a clinical, blow-by-blow account
of his divination of the theory of evolution, the
book
was
primarily
about the emotional and physical toll it took on
Darwin as he progressed determinedly forward, putting
all
the
pieces tgether.
Just imagine if you will a society, even one as enlightened
as 18th century England, where religion still plays
a fundamental role in almost every facet of everyday
existence. Now
imagine your
own
wife,
the woman
you love and cherish above all others, woefully concerned
about your eternal soul as you construct your evolutionary
diagram, possibly dooming yourself to the fiery pit. Now
factor in the excruciating death of a beloved daughter
to
a
senseless
disease, the kind they simply wrote off as a "mystery
of God". That
sort
of thing
can lead
to many sleepless nights, just as it did
for
Mr.
Darwin.
It's funny how we have this mental image of men of
science arriving at their "Ah-HA!" moment divorced
of all petty intrusions like mowing the lawn or taking
the kids to the park. It's
so clean and neat, not unlike the beginning and ending
dates
in history books of
wars
fought
long
ago.
Anyway, that's why I created today's comic. It's
clear to me that human civilization would be so much
more, well, civilized if it wasn't so poisoned by
those
who believe in invisible
people
in the sky watching our every movement. Of course
those very same people believe that our society is
as advanced as it is precisely because of
religion. Those people
are, in my opinion, a waste of good DNA.
The cartoon is also semi-biographical as
I was once married to that woman in the first
panel,
but
I'm currently favored by the affection of
the woman in the second panel. Even though it's
just a silly little cartoon, and not the theory that
binds all Earthly creatures together, I probably
would not, or could not, have drawn it had I still
been manacled to Woman #1.
To sum it up, Charles Darwin had balls the size of
polo ponies.
=Lefty=
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