I loved the characters, loved the world, loved the ideas. That said, it fell apart a bit for me at the end. Maybe I missed something, but it seemed to get very muddled at the end, with the monster and the plunging and the ghosts and the golems and the *GLAVEN*! [/frink]
I probably just need a re-listen, and will do that soon, and will probably read the text as well.
re: Darwin, OtooS, fiction, and religion: Natural selection and evolution has been proven time and again to be true. That said, EP is right, it could change, in the same way that any other science can change, given new evidence. We are just interpreting what we see in the universe, and assigning laws to them. The laws of physics act very weird at the very large and very small scale, and we are learning more about these extremes every day. Even natural selection is gets a tune up now and then, with scientists discovering different ways that creatures evolve and have evolved.
This is a fictional story, and as such, can take liberties with anything that is real. I think blueeyeddevil may have taken the framework of their previous arguments with IDers and brought it into the conversation here, and jumped to a few conclusions.
To me, the scariest thing about this episode was the idea of Golden Girls porn. Ew.