Comments on: Be Thankful You Aren’t a Penguin

By: luke

luke — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 23:55:01 +0000

in unrelated new, i now sort of have a blog.

in related news, here is something about penguins. very cute something about penguins.

http://www.sushiesque.com/adorablog/2005/11/how_to_knit_a_s.html

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 02:08:20 +0000

Yeah, I had heard that it was the movie that brought a lot of people to the theatres for the first time since Passion of Christ. I was going to comment on that but didn’t really have a lot to say.

I will mention that the movie contains references to things on the scale of geological time (Antarctica used to be tropical, then the continent drifted south, most inhabitants died or left, the penguins “decided to stay” – which is a thinly veiled reference to Evolution). Whether the penguin’s remarkably bizarre mating habits are Intelligently Designed or not I’m not going to comment.

The film *does* feature a fair bit of fairly heavy penguin-on-penguin action. And penguins, I might add, are less manogomous than other birds: they get a new partner every year. Some birds mate for life.

By: luke

luke — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:05:24 +0000

you should check out this story… i hear of it in the economist a while ago, but it turns out that the american religious right, the creationist croud, the gay-bashing croud, the abstinence-only croud, flocked to the movie.

for some reason, they thought it talked about I.D., monogamy, and left out global warming, so naturally, they loved it.

here is at least one article on the phenomenon. more can certainly be found through google.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1837607,00.html