Two thoughts

Substantively, they are completely unrelated. It's just that I think both are great observations, and wish they were mine.

First, Steven Landsburg writes

The Intelligent Design folk tell you that complexity requires a designer. The Richard Dawkins crowd tell you that complexity must evolve from simplicity. I claim they're both wrong, because the natural numbers, together with the operations of arithmetic, are fantastically complex, but were neither created nor evolved.

(By "fantastically complex" he means the unsolvability of the halting problem: it's logically impossible to write an algorithm that could tell you whether or not any given arithmetic problem is solvable in finite time.)

The second thought is Eric Falkenstein's:

... 150 years ago it would be proper to be a racist and think that the 'upper class' was a thoroughly different beast altogether, whereas today smarmy college freshmen at top universities think every human grouping possible has equal genetic ability and interest in every meaningful human dimension. People never get rid of their prejudices, they just change them.