Evolution is a Long Love Affair for Some French Intellectuals

In 10th grade or so, I was looking at a book that someone still at International Baccalaureate (if it was grade 11) or taking another English course in it (if it was still grade 10) or simply reading it for fun ... The Bridge over the River Kwai.

I could not wrap my reading habits around enjoying that book ... and today I am not too unhappy about it. You see, it is actually in French, Le Pont de la rivière Kwaï, and by one Pierre Boulle, full name Pierre François Marie Louis Boulle (20 February 1912 – 30 January 1994). His other ultrafamous (even more so) book was Planet of the Apes. Published in 1963, made into a film in the US in 1968 ...

Back in 1986, I met one Tom Zimmer, a Catholic vagabond in Rome, back then, both "prayer warrior" as some would call it and also essay writer - published on the charity of benefactors who admired his work. He gave me an update folder and Hope 84 and sent me more update folders. In one of the publications, there was this about Planet of the Apes, either Our Lady hates it or God hates it. Whichever statement was his wording, arguably both do.

Obviously, Pierre Boule was not a musician, or he would have seen the problem I mentioned in previous essay here - Soul, Anatomy, Speech - and the fact he was an apostate Catholic gone agnostic illustrates Faulhaber's (the cardinal's) dictum: "incredible how much you have to be credulous of in order to be an incredulous unbeliever!"

Pierre Boule wrote a book lot more fiction than science, this book of science fiction.

But some French intellectuals are still not over this love affair with lies and nonsense .../HGL

PS From wiki on the novel:

Cornélius, an archaeologist, excavates an ancient human city. An unconscious human lab subject recites from racial memory the events that led to the fall of human civilization: humans tamed apes and eventually used them as servants. As apes learned to talk, a cerebral laziness took hold of the humans. Apes gradually took over human homes, driving the humans into camps outside of the cities. In the final memory, apes attacked the last human camp, carrying only whips.

As apes learned to talk, ... no, they definitely didn't!/HGL