Firing people to create jobs ... let's give Charles Darwin a run for his money

Government austerity results in government layoffs and thus directly causes a rise in the unemployment rate. Yet Republicans continue to insist that cutting spending will somehow create jobs. So with all of the arguments against science, (evolution, climate change, etc.) the far right has now, abandoned mathematics as well. And, as is clearly evident in the vast majority of reader comments on most news sites (with a few exceptions i.e. the NY Times), the need for language, spelling, grammar have been repudiated as well.

So now it seems as though a large, and seemingly growing faction choose basically to eliminate any and all of the traits exhibited by humans that separate us from other species.

The only logical end result of totally reducing us to being on par with other animal species would be true survival of the fittest. The strongest and most intelligent among us will have the best access to food, shelter, safety, longevity and, ultimately propagation. This is, of course, Darwinism at its core which would in itself be in direct contradiction with Creationism, but it is indeed the only POSSIBLE result ... barring divine intervention, if one believes in that sort of thing.

Won't the outcome be interesting? Just how many of us will suddenly find ourselves on the opposite side of the have and have-not fence and realize once and for all how we have become a society based upon the survival not of the fittest but of the most fortunate?

Perhaps then everyone will understand that it is the scientific superiority of the human species and our innate intelligence that has allowed us, since the dawn of civilization, to actually defy science itself and make our own world more liveable.

-GSW, July 2011