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March of the Penguins Supporting Intelligent Design Theory. Really?

Christian conservatives have claimed that March of the Penguins, the documentary of emperor penguins by Luc Jacquet, is a film that support Intelligent Design.

The film, narrated by Morgan Freeman, distributed by Warner Independent Pictures, is a real-life documentary which follows a flock of emperor penguins in the Antarctic for a year as they journey 70 miles in harsh winds and freezing cold temperatures by foot, going through the harshest conditions in the struggle to survive - all to find true “love” and to find a mate and reproduce. This new French documentary follows them throughout the entire 9-month mating period.

“To think that natural selection or even the penguins themselves could come up with the idea to migrate miles and miles multiple times each year without their partner or their offspring is a bit insulting to my intellect. How great is our God!”

First of all, “love” isn’t an applicable term (even with Homo sapiens) and second these ID people seem to be easily dazzled and may need to get out more. I guess that is what you get for shunning natural science in school … it also says quite a bit about the cognitive capabilities of those that so passionately bash evolution if they go for something so simplistic. If complexity alone is a sign of their god, they need to look harder because their are far more complex systems in operations in the real world. Many of which operate in our own mind. Furthermore, the zealots make fools of themselves by hinting core family values and giving the birds animistic characters that just aren’t there. But what did you expect?

In other news, not even natural selection can explain why so profoundly unintelligent people are able to survive and reproduce. Now that is a far bigger conundrum and a far bigger threat to the theory of evolution through natural selection. And perhaps the most pertinent question of all, does this finally prove that birds are smarter than Christian conservatives?