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Beetles, common people
Posted by David FG on December 30, 2004
In Reply to: Beetles, common people posted by ESC on December 30, 2004
: : : : The naturalist, J. B. S. Haldane, was asked by a cleric about what he might infer about the Creator, based on his wide ranging study of life.
: : : : Haldane supposedly replied the the creator had "an inordinate fondness for beetles" based on the then current count of beetle species at around 400,000.
: : : Good quote. And what was the one about God must love ugly people because he made so many of them. Abraham Lincoln?
: : Lincoln is credited with saying that about common people.
: Oh. "Ugly people" is funnier.
This is slightly spooky: I alluded to the Haldane quotation only this morning - the problem was that I couldn't remember who the author was.
Have we entered the twilight zone?
DFG
