Are You Comfortable With Evolution?

For John, BLUF:  Shouldn't we wonder, why "A" and not "B"?  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Professor Ann Althouse, at her Blog, muses on the Anti-Semitic Graffiti in Madison, Wisconsin, over the weekend, and quotes her first husband, Richard Lawrence Cohen, who introduces the idea that one response to the awful graffiti used "feminist language and the word "comfortable".  Then we slip over to Governor Scott Walker♠ and the question from the British Press as to if he was "comfortable" with evolution.♥

Is that feminist language?  Of course, I immediately thought about the British journalist who asked Scott Walker "Are you comfortable with the idea of evolution?" Comfortable! After thinking about that for a few days, I decided that the correct answer to that question must be:  No!  The question whether the theory of evolution is accurate is entirely different from the question whether we should be comfortable with it.  If you understand it, it should make you uncomfortable . Why are we here — we... and not some kinder, gentler people who were murdered and whose genes were superseded by the genes of marauding rapists?

I wonder if she read, over the weekend, the lead article in the "Ideas" section of The Boston Globe, which took another look at "Our lost cousins, the Neanderthals"

Hat tip to Althouse.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  Mr Scott to those of you who read The New York Times.
♥  Being a Republican and being a Preacher's Kid, and all that.