Friday, October 1, 2021

The Cosmic Eros hard at work

 


Not sure what the pic above is supposed to be, some kind of creepy wasp attacking an equally creepy spider. Now, how on Earth (pun may be intended) did these critters even *get* here? There are some possibilities...

1. God refashioned the entire world in a truly bizarre manner after the fall of Adam and Eve. However, one day, his Son will return, and then the wasp and the spider will become friendly towards each other.

2. It´s a product of blind evolution, following a bizarre chance event during which "life" emerged just like that, from dead shit. Another line of evolution gave rise to "Homo sapiens".

3. God did it on purpose, and now he´s just laughing at us all. Hard!

Hmmm... 

4 comments:

  1. From Wiki:

    "The apparent cruelty of the ichneumonids troubled philosophers, naturalists, and theologians in the 19th century, who found the parasitoid life style inconsistent with the notion of a world created by a loving and benevolent God. Charles Darwin found the example of the Ichneumonidae so troubling that it contributed to his increasing doubts about the nature and existence of a Creator. In an 1860 letter to the American naturalist Asa Gray, Darwin wrote:

    I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice."

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  2. Usually, it´s the ichneumonid wasps that are used as evidence against Christianity, in a kind of "ichneumonid theodicy", so I´m actually a bit original focusing on the spider wasps instead, I mean, come on, earning your living (and your eating) by hunting down and killing innocent spiders sheesh what´s up with that?!

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  3. Darwin´s argument is theological bunk, any good ol´ Bible-thumper know about the fall of Man (and Nature)...

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  4. OK, did some further reading, it´s the entire paralysis-and-let-the-larvae-eat-them-from-inside kind of thing, feels almost a bit ichneumonid actually!

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