ID Goes South

Here was me thinking that all this Creation v. Evolution nonsense was restricted to the religious wingnuts in the US.

But no . . . Christian group "Focus on the Family" has been active in New Zealand, sending CDs and books promoting Intelligent Design theory to schools.

Bring it on, I say. The NZ chapter obviously missed the memo saying that this turned into an embarrassing failure for their compadres in the US a few years ago.

It'll be interesting to see if our local Christian lobby group "Family First" decide to get in on the act. Part of me hopes they do. It's hella fun watching people like that get debated into the ground.

Ah, it's nice having tangible facts and evidence on your side.

As I Was Saying

Continuing on the same train of thought as yesterday, we're starting to see some of the growing pains of a cultural shift to less car use.

Sydney is wrestling with the idea of car pooling.

With the continuing rise in petrol prices, this is inevitable in a town with a dense centre, outer suburban sprawl and substandard public transport.

Sound familiar? Yeah. Expect similar discussions about Melbourne real soon.

In Wellington they've introduced car lanes for use only by cars with at least three people. And of course, people are using love dolls, mannequins, and probably even artful combinations of doonas-and-pillows in an effort to get around it.

Seinfeld, of course, covered this fifteen years ago.

We really are behind the times down here.