My Iration

is that a word? oh well. I rarely get up in arms about an issue. I don't like when men call women bitches, i don't like when people make fun of other people, and i fucking hate creationists. I swear to god they have got to be the most ignorant, deluded people on the planet. Let me preface this rant by saying i respect very deeply the right of all persons to believe exactly as they choose and to teach their children accordingly, (hough i also think children should have some sort of right to a broad range of opinions and theories and be able to make their own minds up. I also think it was a minor victory for free speech that intelligent design won the right to be taught alongside evolution in schools, since a great enough portion of the population believe it strongly enough. That said i think that these intelligent design fucks are all a big fucking bunch of ostriches that would rather stick their heads in the sand then trust themselves to correctly interpret that book that they run their lives by. Make no mistake, i am a religious person (we won't get into which one right now), however, i can't believe that these people would buy into a theory so inherently flawed as creationism in the interest of taking every word of the bible as blind law. If you really need god to be that infallible that you would take what has been so corrupted and polluted by the hands of man and is obviously largely metaphor, parable, and allegory, to be a literal telling of the story of ENTIRE universe, then you have missed the entire point. (My kingdom is in you?!). The lack of faith in the individual is not what i find so incredibly insulting about creationism, though. It is the blind disregard for something i hold so dear; science. I think that the scientific pursuits are some of the loftiest of men and are going to bring us into the most exciting frontiers we can imagine. I also fail to see how one can not appreciate a truly elegant solution. WHY IS THE IDEA OF EVOLUTION SO HARD TO RESOLVE WITH THE EXISTENCE OF GOD? In my mind i give much more credit to a higher power who would come up with something so ingenious as darwinism than one who just shit us out in seven days just as we are now, will be, and always have been. Gimme a break, talk about stagnant. And lastly, if you freakin think about it, Genesis is not entirely unresolveable from a darwinist perspective. "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth"- well yah, he pretty much did. "Then he created the seas and the land to divide them"- check. "Then he created the stars"- still with ya."Then he created man and the beasts" this in no way contradicts an evolutionary basis. Anyways, i gotta go to class. thanks for listening.