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Divine Taxonomy
28 September 2004Animal, vegetable or mineral? Kari Lynn Dean, of Wired News reports on the efforts of Jonathan Keats, head of the International Association for Divine Taxonomy, to place God on the phyogenetic map -- the scientific tree of life. The project, unsurprisingly, faces evolutionary theory off with creationism, though maybe in a novel way: If Darwin wins, God is most like blue-green algae. If W.J.B. does, God is with the fruit flies. Keats does acknowledge the possibility that gods deserve their own category, and so added a fourth domain, Divinea, which includes Pagan and Hindu gods, "as well as Diveneus deus, Keats' scientific moniker for the monotheistic God known as Jehovah, Yahweh or Allah."
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