Smithsonian’s screening of Privileged Planet

apparently has caused hysteria among the fundamentalist Darwinists, even though it is not specifically about evolution and even though most of them probably didn’t see it because they would regard it as beneath their contempt. It is funny that the kind of fervent reaction provoked in these ultra-Darwinsts is not all that different from what they and their secularist cohorts would ascribe to so-called fundamentalist Christians when the Christians’ doctrines and moral convictions are attacked in word or in deed. If they would deign even to engage in a little self-examination and self-reflection, they might as soon apply the label “fundamentalist” to themselves.

In a sense, it is not all that surprising. People get worked up when their ultimate conviction and commitment are challenged, when their idols get smashed and they are revealed to be idolators. But why would there be an offense? Why is an offense offensive if there were not some kind intrinsic human dignity that is grounded in the imago Dei? Van Til was proved right once again.

Oh, and there is the irony that the computer program that the evolutionnews.org blog runs on is called b2evolution. Was that intentional?