Another take on Intelligent Design...
Dec. 27th, 2006 07:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
herveus...is Jack Chalker's Well World series.
It's deus ex machina writ large. It doesn't actually grind that axe, but when you get right down to the end of the original five-book series, "intelligent design" is right there. Now, the people trying to cloak creationism with a veneer of "science" to sneak it into the science curriculum probably would be put out by Chalker's expression of it, but that's just a bonus.
If you *must* have an invisible guiding hand making "stuff" happen, the Well World scheme makes as much sense as anything else.
It's deus ex machina writ large. It doesn't actually grind that axe, but when you get right down to the end of the original five-book series, "intelligent design" is right there. Now, the people trying to cloak creationism with a veneer of "science" to sneak it into the science curriculum probably would be put out by Chalker's expression of it, but that's just a bonus.
If you *must* have an invisible guiding hand making "stuff" happen, the Well World scheme makes as much sense as anything else.
