I mentioned Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert and now blogger, in an earlier post. Now I learn, via Louise via Pharyngula, that Adams has decided to wade into the wrong side of the creation debate. Louise Pharyngula compares Adams to Wally, which doesn’t sound right to me. For my money Adams is more like the hyper-talented garbage man who knows how to fix every f-cking thing on the planet.
Have you ever gotten into it with the idiot savants behind six-sigma and hidden-planet conspiracy theories? I have. Don’t bother; there is no authority you can reference that they can’t find some obscure reason to doubt. These guys are often gifted engineers who’ve spent so long knowing practically everything about their particular specialty that it seems like a short leap to imagine that they know everything about everything. The same guys torment mathematicians and physicists tirelessly with inane theories of Everything.
Scott Adams was apparently a very good engineer and while I wouldn’t put him in the six sigma camp (which he has mocked), the same tendency lets him believe that he knows enough about evolution to stick it good to the people who spend their lives studying it. That’s not the sort of thing I’d expect Wally to do, but it would be right in character for the Good Will Hunting garbage guy.
That said, his blog is still funny and I still read Dilbert before doing practically anything else in the morning.
***Update***
Minor error fixed (sorry, Louise!). Also, Scott Adams not an engineer? There goes my damn theory. Next week remind me to share with you my expanded theory of EVERYTHING, hidden planets included.