Is the US Becoming Hostile to Science?
I don't know what to say about this any more. It just seems that at this time in this country, people are desperately seeking answers, and latching on to whatever readily assauges their fears.
On some levels I believe in a higher power than myself, or want to believe I suppose. And I could accept many of the Intelligent Design arguments if they were arguments, or were even plausible to any degree.
Many of these pro-IDers look as if they simply say, "Man, shit is complicated. God did it." There is no support. No counterpoint. Just a simple, "This is complicated, I have no current means of explanation, so someone had to do it." The running line at the moment is that Darwin's model of evolution is also a theory, and that ID should be given equal consideration as a sort of foil.
Except theories can be supported with some sort of empirical information! There are no numbers, real or imagined, that currently equate to God! Unless you want to get into a long tirade on the number 42, but that's an assfull of hamsters in and of itself.
So here the country stands. Continually spiraling into a technological and intellectual oblivion, all the while still attempting to hide behind an economical chokehold on the world, whose grip is also slackening, and our nuclear capabilities, which isn't that great a threat anymore. We seem to live in a society that is threatened by technology. Or more so threatened by anything that hasn't been blessed and ordained by the Mother Superior-Father-Pope Pasteuridnal Right-Hand-Man to Jesuallahammad Christ of the Catholic Episcapalion Presbytarian Lutheran Methodist Baptist Cheyenne Marching Rock on the side of the road to Jericho salt flats ontop of Mt. Sinai of the Virgin Mother's Big Toe... Church.
Perhaps its just society's natural fear of change, and our current governmental administration preying upon those fears. Its like we've been told we don't know what's good for us, and the people who think they know what's good for us don't know what the hell they're doing, so shit, somebody has to have the answers.
This rant brought to you after having been cursed out at 3 AM sunday morning by one of my friend's girlfriends-of-the-week after I tried to explain to her how bird's fly, and why we all don't float off into space, then getting home and seeing the above article. Seriously, this girl bitched at me for an hour about how I would degrade the majesty of god's creation with an explanation. And she's studying to become a SOCIAL WORKER! Who the shit? If she had thumped the bible any harder she'd've left an "I (heart) Jesus" ring imprint on the cover. That's why I don't go to church anymore.
...That and the collection plate incident, but that's another story entirely.
I'd had some vodka. This was my first drink in about a month or two, so I don't drink ever and I'll be the first to tell you I'm a lightweight. And even with alcohol, it takes a lot to get me angry-angry, but after a while I told the girl that if she didn't shut the fuck up I was going to reach down her throat and rip out her ovaries so that future generations would be spared her idiocy.
She went to lay down and the rest of the night was relatively smooth.
I don't know what to say about this any more. It just seems that at this time in this country, people are desperately seeking answers, and latching on to whatever readily assauges their fears.
On some levels I believe in a higher power than myself, or want to believe I suppose. And I could accept many of the Intelligent Design arguments if they were arguments, or were even plausible to any degree.
Many of these pro-IDers look as if they simply say, "Man, shit is complicated. God did it." There is no support. No counterpoint. Just a simple, "This is complicated, I have no current means of explanation, so someone had to do it." The running line at the moment is that Darwin's model of evolution is also a theory, and that ID should be given equal consideration as a sort of foil.
Except theories can be supported with some sort of empirical information! There are no numbers, real or imagined, that currently equate to God! Unless you want to get into a long tirade on the number 42, but that's an assfull of hamsters in and of itself.
So here the country stands. Continually spiraling into a technological and intellectual oblivion, all the while still attempting to hide behind an economical chokehold on the world, whose grip is also slackening, and our nuclear capabilities, which isn't that great a threat anymore. We seem to live in a society that is threatened by technology. Or more so threatened by anything that hasn't been blessed and ordained by the Mother Superior-Father-Pope Pasteuridnal Right-Hand-Man to Jesuallahammad Christ of the Catholic Episcapalion Presbytarian Lutheran Methodist Baptist Cheyenne Marching Rock on the side of the road to Jericho salt flats ontop of Mt. Sinai of the Virgin Mother's Big Toe... Church.
Perhaps its just society's natural fear of change, and our current governmental administration preying upon those fears. Its like we've been told we don't know what's good for us, and the people who think they know what's good for us don't know what the hell they're doing, so shit, somebody has to have the answers.
This rant brought to you after having been cursed out at 3 AM sunday morning by one of my friend's girlfriends-of-the-week after I tried to explain to her how bird's fly, and why we all don't float off into space, then getting home and seeing the above article. Seriously, this girl bitched at me for an hour about how I would degrade the majesty of god's creation with an explanation. And she's studying to become a SOCIAL WORKER! Who the shit? If she had thumped the bible any harder she'd've left an "I (heart) Jesus" ring imprint on the cover. That's why I don't go to church anymore.
...That and the collection plate incident, but that's another story entirely.
I'd had some vodka. This was my first drink in about a month or two, so I don't drink ever and I'll be the first to tell you I'm a lightweight. And even with alcohol, it takes a lot to get me angry-angry, but after a while I told the girl that if she didn't shut the fuck up I was going to reach down her throat and rip out her ovaries so that future generations would be spared her idiocy.
She went to lay down and the rest of the night was relatively smooth.
And if you don't love Jesus, at least love the Flying Spaghetti Monster: http://www.venganza.org/index.htm