Creation and Evolution

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i like the pictures: it's like sesame street, yes?
which one is the odd-one out ?
err.. the top left, because without the achemist there would have been no chemistry.
what do i win?

Yes! The symbol representing modern chemistry is there in the viewer's left, the alchemist's/magician's right; this pattern is the opposite of the other parts of the picture, where the earlier, and by general modern consensus less well informed view is in the corresponding corner of the quarter of the picture. I have no idea what you win. 666? What are you offering Kosmonaut for undoubted perspicacity?

well i never even thought about which side of the picture they were on.
all i am saying is that the alchemists layed the foundations for what they call chemistry today.
whereas astrology is f**k all do with astronomy.
draw yr conclusions about the other 2.

True (with regard to alchemy). Probably the most that could be said for astrology is that a number of astronomical phenomena were first observed by ancient Mesopotamian astrologers, but I do not know what valid conclusions can really be drawn from this. I never understood how such a theory was supposed to work given its cosmology did not correspond to reality in the universe that it purported to provide predictions for. Phrenology - well I can see what they were trying to do, but in my not especially humble opinion almost certainly utter nonsense. Magic and physics? Well the first term is used for quite a diverse range of phenomena; I am not certain if it corresponds to physics in the same way as the other pairings correspond.

By the way, people did laugh at mediaeval barber-surgeons (once a united profession quite distinct from physicians, who could also double as astrologers) for using leeches, until modern science found an application. I do not know what you can validly conclude from that either.

"Adherent" of evolution? Oy vey.

"Secular creation theory"? Oh, yeah! The aliens! The aliens did it! They were responsible! BLAME IT ALL ON THE ALIENS!! Also, so-called "intelligent design" actually is "divinely decreed evolution." The truth, however, is that this whole planet is just one great ALIEN CONSPIRACY. If you can prove it ain't true, shoot me dead.

Duh. Creationists are funny. Smack them with boards, and watch them spin.

Funny. That's what I'd say of a person not genuinely curious as to its origins. An explanation like "someone made it like that" is hollow and cheap. When we came across the Grand Canyon, we didn't just assume the Indians had dug it and pass it by without investigation.

So are humans. Hell, so are bugs, actually, or any self-replicating gizmo.