Tuesday, September 27, 2005

I guess the whole evolution/creation crap is getting thrown back into the courts, this time calling creationism "intelligent design", and with people trying to get the theory worked back into the schools. The evolutionists don't think it should be because it's apparently some sort of awful plot devised by those jaded churchtypes to throw a monkey wrench into their infallable elitist truths.

Despite that last paragraph (heh), I don't have anything at all against evolution. Is it true? There are strong references in Genesis that seem to point both ways, so I don't know. And even if I did, I have the feeling that my life would be, inexplicably, exactly the same as it was before. Go figure, eh?

I'm only posting about it because I think it's pretty interesting how the tables have turned in these three decades or so, where before, scientists and parents were fighting against the overzealous, oppresionist conservatives to get evolution in schools via the just argument of free speech, and now they're the bigots who are trying to keep any view contradictory to theirs out of our education, lol.

Really, they should both be taught (or at least touched on). So should reincarnation and any other theory--religious or non--dealing with how life on Earth began. (I don't think any of those ideas are right by a long shot, but then again I don't constitute but 1/7000000000th of the world's population.) Evolution should be taught in much more depth than any of these other theories (perhaps naught but a sentence or two is required for the others), but only because it's much more complicated than them and requires more explanation to understand. Not because it's necessarily true.

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We are, finally, totally moved into our new house. A week or so ago, we went back to Ottawa to help coordinate our move, and I ended up with a nice little desk/table on which to mount my homework and laptop. The size of my room also allowed me to put my TV at the end of my bed for the first time, giving me comfortable access to movies or Super Smash Brothers at any time. My room is a blast, and as soon as I get out to Wal*Mart (who knows when that'll be, though), I'll buy a disposable digital camera and snag some pictures of it.

Speaking of movies and watching them in my room, I fortunately remembered, when we went to rent movies a few nights ago, to look at Hastings (they have a Hastings here =O) to see if they have one of the coolest movies of all time there. They didn't anywhere else here or in Ottawa, see. But lo and behold, ten seconds after I started looking for it, I had my eyes fixed on a beautiful, beautiful DVD copy of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.

For you hopefully few dweebs who don't know about the movie, Bill and Ted are two guys who are failing their history class--and thus, school--because they're spending so much time on their crappy band, Wyld Stallyns. But as you find out in the beginning of the movie, the music of Wyld Stallyns is destined to eventually align the planets and unite the human race, creating eternal utopia on Earth. But in order for this to eventually happen, they have to first pass school. So a man from the future named Rufus, played by George Carlin (you're hooked by now, aren't you?), travels back in time to help Bill and Ted by giving them a time-traveling phone booth that they can use to learn about history and pass their final. It rocks.

And speaking also of pictures, my school has a scanner that's open for public use, as I displayed two posts ago, so you might be able to expect some more drawings and things from me. Then again, you might not.

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Everyone: That was not what I was looking for when I said I wanted someone to shift the blame away from me. But oh well, at least you all tried your best. Go have some steaks on me.
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