The Evolution of March Madness Evolution:

How Come Talent is “God Given” When there is no God? 

I don’t profess to be an expert on evolution or the defense of creation.  I can’t explain the mutative process and how only some mutations are passed down and some are not.  I can’t explain how natural selection, in combination with randomness and time, has produced human beings. At the end of the day, I really can’t explain why, “Evolution means that we’re all distant cousins: humans and oak trees, hummingbirds and whales.” 

What I can tell you is that most of the world that has a platform to talk about it, at least in the media, seems to reject any possibility for a creator.  Not hard to see that. 

Question:  What's the difference between LeBron James and Tiger Woods?  Answer:  One is vertical and the other is horizontal. 

LeBron James runs, jumps, leaps, flies.  He's vertical.  Tiger Woods drives, walks, putts, and occasionally pumps his fist.  He's horizontal.

Here's another way to look at it:  LeBron James is new media, while Tiger Woods is old media.  That's because new media is vertical, while old media is horizontal.

The idea that media can be vertical or horizontal has been around for a while.  Mike Shatzkin (aka "Mr. Vertical") has written extensively on the subject.  He says new media is characterized by "vertical, subject-specific organization.  It naturally facilitates clustering around subjects."  New media is Google, facebook, twitter, mogulus.  New Media is community, grassroots, bottom-up, messy, unpredictable, improvisational, tattoos, fun.  New media is LeBron.