Custom Search  Tuesday, September 16, 2008  Intelligent design
and popular culture: The ghost of Darwin rises  Yes - an
entertaining play (for once) on the intelligent design
controversy  Sociologist Steve Fuller who studies the
intelligent design-Darwin controversy - and is in danger of
being roasted by Darwin trolls - has written a play, and it's
actually a good show.  I have gone on record saying that almost
all "cause" art of any kind is "freakingly awful":  Most “cause”
books and movies are terrible. Just terrible. Freakingly awful.
There is a good reason for that.  A novel or film must
incarnate, not explain.  It must show people living the
situation, not talking about it. But Fuller has an interesting
premise: A postmodern talk show on which Charles Darwin (Chuck)
and Abe Lincoln (Abe), whose birthdays fall on the same day,
appear.  They are interviewed, and decide if they want to stay
in the present or go back to wherever they are now (not
disclosed as a matter of broadcast policy).  There are two ho