Bush, American voters and the doctrine of free will

[bklyncowgirl]

Someone on another blog, discussing the theory of intelligent design, asked how an intelligent designer could have created George Bush.

Good question. While I don't believe in intelligent design, I'm open to the idea of some creative universal intelligence that for lack of anything better, we call God. What that person was forgetting about was the concept of free will which helps to explain how a benevolent creator could allow evil, ignorance and rampant stupidity to exist in the world.

George W. Bush COULD HAVE CHOSEN used his family's wealth and position to gain the finest education available in this country to prepare himself for a life of service.
HE CHOSE to spend his college career as the life of the Frat Party circuit.

HE COULD HAVE CHOSEN to humbly serve his country in Vietnam and experience the horrors that ordinary Americans of his age experienced.
He CHOSE to have Daddy get him a no show job in the National Guard.

HE COULD HAVE CHOSEN to spend the formative years of his life creating something good and useful--even a productive oil company or a winning baseball team, since those were his preferred business.
He CHOSE to devote it to booze and dope and blundering through a series of bankruptcies and business failures saved only by Daddy's influential friends.

HE COULD HAVE CHOSEN to realize his limitations and remained a private businessman.
HE CHOSE, aided and abetted by junkyard dog smearmeister Karl Rove, to enter politics and managed to make himself, first Governor of Texas and then President of the United States.

I'm not even going to go into the disasterous choices that he's made as president--Skinner would not like me taking up so much bandwidth.

How could he do this? Because too many voters, too lazy or too dimwitted or too besotted by his fratboy turned cowboy charm and their affection for his parents, CHOSE to not look deeply into his background.

To be true, finding this information was rather difficult because main stream media CHOSE to not bring these facts to the American people. Instead they carped and nitpicked at Al Gore (too boring, too wooden) while blythely accepting Bush's statement that "When I was young and stupid, I was young and stupid".

His opponents--either through fear or some misplaced faith in the American people CHOSE to not bring these issues up in any systematic manner and the Democratic Party establishment CHOSE not to fully support Al Gores attempts to prove his win in Florida.

There were plenty of bad choices by us humans all around--no need to bring God into it.

"Elections have consequences" to quote George W. Bush and so do the choices that we all make every day.

Title edited because the post was sinking like a stone

[ixion]

1. evolution exhibits a trait we describe as 'clever', although I wouldn't go so far as to call our

design 'intelligent'.

For starters, using carbon as a building block doesn't make as much sense as silicon, but I digress.

Humans are not all that well-designed, and chimpenfurher is just an example of the lowest form of that design.

The human design is really nothing more than a ball of flesh with opposable thumbs built around a modestly-sized brain. We use our thumbs to build the world our brain describes. Without the thumbs, we'd be useless creatures. As for our brains, well, they have just enough processing power to cause trouble. Humans, much like evolution, exhibit cleverness, but rarely intelligence. We have powers of conception, but little to no vision. When people who do have vision happen along, we promptly imprison them, parade them before the citizenry and then burn them at the stake, whether literally or figuratively.

Humans prefer their deities and heroes dead. They're more manageable that way.

So, in my opinion, these people who speak of intelligent design are, ironically, not all that intelligent. And that an utter idiot like * can become the pResident -- that he can blatantly lie, that he can illegally invade sovereign nations and still travel the planet a free man -- by my thinking confirms my hypothesis: humans are really very intelligent at all.

At the close of his novel 'Hocus Pocus', Kurt Vonnegut closes with a line that goes something like this: "Just because we can read and write and do some math, that doesn't make us the Masters of the Universe."

I would whole-heartedly agree.