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TED:Cute,Sexy,Sweet,Funny I am going around the world giving talks about Darwin,and usually what I am talking about is Darwin,and usually what I am talking about is Darwin s strange inversion of reasoning. Now that title,that phrase,comes from a critic,an early critic,and this is a passage that I just love,and would like to read for you. In the theory with which we have to deal,Absolute Ignorance is the artificer;so that we may enunciate as the fundamental principle of the whole system,that,in order to make a perfect and beautiful machine,it is not requisite to know how to make it. This proposition will be found ,on careful examination,to express,in condensed from,the essential purport of the Theory,and to express in a few words all Mr.Darwin s meaning:who,by a strange inversion of reasoning,seems to think Absolute Ignorance fully qualified to take the place of Absolute Wisdom in all the achievements of creative skill. Exactly ,Exactly. And it is a strange inversion. A creationist pamphlet this wonderful page in it: Test Two: Do you know of any building that did not have a builder? Yes No. Do you know of any painting that did not have a painter? Yes No. Do you know any car without a maker? Yes No. If you answered YESfor any of the above,give detail. A-ha.I mean,it really is a strange inversion of reasoning. You would have thought it stands to reason that design requires an intelligent designer. But Darwin show that it is just false. Today ,though,I am going to talk about Darwin s other strange inversion,which is equally puzzling at first,but in some ways just as important. It stands to reason that we love chocolate cake because it is sweet. Guys go for girls like this because they are sexy. We adore babies because they are so cute. And ,of course, we are amused by jocks because they are funny.and is is all back wards. It is. And Darwin shows us why. Let us start with sweet. Our sweet tooth is basically an evolved sugar detector,because sugar is high