The Great Transfer - Poke-volution

Picture the scene, if you will; Sunday morning, I come downstairs after my girlfriend leaves for work, turn on the TV and fire up my laptop. There's basically fuck all on, so I put it on Pokemon and Stumble around the Internet.

Whilst I'm Stumbling, however, I'm surprised to hear the following snippet from the TV:

Gym Leader: Fossils are amazing; Pokemon have been changing over the thousands of years since this fossil was created and, using fossils, we can look into a Pokemon's past to see how they've changed.

Ash: Wow, fossils are awesome.

That's right, my friends; Pokemon was actively promoting the theory of evolution! They've always had 'evolution' in the games and series but I'd always thought that was an allegory for growing up to help children understand puberty, but they were outright saying that evolution exists in this episode.

How fucking ace is that?

I'm surprised that they would get away with it, especially considering that the episodes are dubbed in America, but apparently they do. I wonder how many fundamentalists, creationist tools choked on their cornflakes when they heard that.

I don't mind telling you, I'm feeling very warm and fuzzy inside. Who'd have thought that Pokemon might actually help nurture the intellects of our young? The theory of evolution, encouraging looking after one another and, of course, glamorizing ridiculously over-the-top super powers and fights.

Then again, I suppose that the game does encourage mathematical, tactical and logical skills...

That does it; I'm raising my kids on Pokemon!

(Yeah, like my children were ever not going to get a traditional Geek upbringing.)