An article in today's New York Times says that conservatives are rallying around the film March of the Penguins. They think it promotes monogamy and the intelligent design pseudo-theory.
Monogamy? Sure. Except what the movie and its conservative fans fail to point out is that every year the penguins choose new mates. It's temporary monogamy--an automatic annulment every spring. Is this what the conservatives want to promote?
Intelligent design? Pul-eeze! It's just the opposite. The penguins that figured out where it was safest to do their breeding (as far from the predator-filled sea as possible) and were strong enough to withstand the journeys back and forth, were the ones that survived. Evolution does not yield species that take the easy road.
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