Life is weird sometimes.

Shits goin down.

Posted: September 14th, 2003 | Author: admin | Filed under: LJ | 16 Comments »

Oh dear lord.

As an avid follower of the practice of scientific thinking and logical reasoning, I try to stay out of the way of debates between “creationists” and “evolutionists,” mostly because there isn’t much of a debate. It’s mostly a reciting of bible passages, intertwined with a lot of emotions and feelings.

Thus said, I must bring up the topic that I once swore to myself I’d never get worked up about.

My background is this: I come from a strong Catholic family. My parents are both very intelligent people, and my mother majored in Biology. They are both very open minded people and they never bought into the bullshit that is religion, but they like many things about an organized religion. Therefore I was raised as a strong Catholic, but I was always told and encouraged to question everything everyone says, and that there were no “right” answers. Especially when it came to religion.
So, I have a unique mix of respect for the tradition and positive aspects of organized religion, without the emotionally-related close-mindedness of a normal devout Christian.

It really bothers me when people talk about creation, without even considering the evidence:
It bothers me because people who are avid followers of the creation theory are completely close-minded about everything related to evolution. I am a Biology major, and I could not see how someone could study any biological sciences and still believe in creation. Evolution is not a passive theory thrown about cautiously. It is a well proven theory that is present all around us.

Take, for example, the giraffes. Probably the most clichéd example ever. How did giraffes come about? Did God give them long necks? Or did all the short necked giraffes die out because they couldn’t reach the tops of the tall trees?

I realize that’s kind of a weak argument. I’ve studied DNA analysis’s and seen the linkages between creatures that evolve. They have entire trees made from the DNA analysis.

Evolution doesn’t mean that we came from monkeys! That’s just a theory that people made, using the theory of evolution. Besides, how narcissistic must one be, to think that evolving from monkeys is a bad thing? Who the hell cares what we evolved from. People are so stupid. What matters is where we are now.

What brought this about is this http://objective.jesussave.us/creationsciencefair.html

This is quite possibly the first time I have thought of the Christianity as a giant cult. Look at all the mis-information being fed to those kids? Those kids haven’t a chance in the real world of knowledge.

They start them out young:

A prizewinning fifth grader wrote this:

My Uncle Is A Man Named Steve (Not A Monkey)
Cassidy Turnbull (grade 5) presented her uncle, Steve. She also showed photographs of monkeys and invited fairgoers to note the differences between her uncle and the monkeys. She tried to feed her uncle bananas, but he declined to eat them. Cassidy has conclusively shown that her uncle is no monkey.

Oh that’s a great example of logic. Because he fails to eat a banana on command, he is not a monkey. Notice they don’t say anything about their claim that “evolutionists” say that people are evolved from monkeys.

Other Memorable projects:

  • “Life Doesn’t Come From Non-Life” In where a child puts the “raw materials” of life into a jar for three weeks and no life is created.
  • “Rocks Can’t Evolve, Where Did They Come From Mr. Darwin?” Where a 6th grader shows Charles Darwin who’s boss.
  • “Thermodynamics Of Hell Fire” By a Senior in high school, no less.
  • And some great pseudo-science in “Using Prayer To Micro evolve Latent Antibiotic Resistance In Bacteria” Check it!

Something tells me that they were assigned topics.

One hour passes…

As far as I’m concerned, “creationists” can kiss my ass, science rules.

16 Comments on “Shits goin down.”

  1. 1 itastica said at 4:41 pm on September 14th, 2003:

    Did you not see my entry about this?

  2. 2 itastica said at 4:41 pm on September 14th, 2003:

    Specifically that website.

  3. 3 me said at 5:11 pm on September 14th, 2003:

    I didn’t. I had to go back a bit but I found it. Interesting that we both thought it was worth mentioning.

  4. 4 morganogrom said at 5:18 pm on September 14th, 2003:

    “Remember kids, just because you didn’t win a ribbon, doesn’t mean you lost: when it comes to studying the works of the Lord, there are no losers!”

    And didn’t they study the works of the lord so well, I mean when that one kid in the fourth grade declared that “Pokemon Prove Evolutionism Is False,” it made me realize how stupid I was all along for even considering scientific theory. I’m so glad I found this website, Ryan!

  5. 5 morganogrom said at 5:20 pm on September 14th, 2003:

    P.S. Check out the one about Halloween, if you haven’t already-

    http://objective.jesussave.us/halloween.html

  6. 6 castedownjohnny said at 8:36 pm on September 14th, 2003:

    Starting this year, witches are out and Jesus is in! Reclaim Halloween in the name of Jesus!

  7. 7 castedownjohnny said at 8:37 pm on September 14th, 2003:

    “Pokemon Prove Evolutionism Is False” – Paul Sanborn (grade 4)

  8. 8 off_key said at 12:46 am on September 15th, 2003:

    Whooo! Can I get a HalloWitness?

  9. 9 me said at 2:04 am on September 15th, 2003:

    HAHA

    “BOO! I’m John the Baptist, and these are my many exciting exploits…”

  10. 10 frosty88 said at 5:53 am on September 15th, 2003:

    People are stupid, and we just have to live with that. Im sure if you have ever worked worked with the public you would know that.

  11. 11 roxy99ed said at 7:58 am on September 15th, 2003:

    Bumper stickers would be tight!

  12. 12 morganogrom said at 9:22 am on September 15th, 2003:

    I know, I almost died laughing. You’d think it was a joke, it almost seems blasphemous.

  13. 13 misterkleen said at 4:02 pm on September 15th, 2003:

    *sigh*

    I can’t believe that those guys and I are supposed to be on the same page…here’s something for them:

    HEY! IF GOD’S SO POWERFUL, WHAT MAKES YOU THINK EVOLOUTION WASN’T HIS IDEA?!

    Damn, these people…they think that God thinks the way they do…thinking like that is very very self centered (and self rightous). It’s absurd to think that just because it is not FUCKIN VERBATIM from the bible that it didn’t happen…honestly…people like that make the rest of us (Christians/Catholics) look retarded by proxy.

  14. 14 misterkenny said at 8:20 pm on September 16th, 2003:

    Arguing about evolution -vs- creation is POINTLESS. You CANNOT prove it one way or the other, because none of us were there! They’re both unfounded theories. Evolution only has “proof” because they made up the science to prove it. Creation doesn’t have proof, except that fuzzy feeling people get when they sing real loud and read the Bible and such. We won’t know one way or the other until we die, which is why I’m a Christian, because I’m sure not going to hell, if there is one.

  15. 15 misterkenny said at 8:25 pm on September 16th, 2003:

    Also. To all those Christians who make TestaMints and those little Jesus-fish-eating-the-Darwin-fish car things (and the guy who wrote the HalloWitness article):

    Fuck you.

  16. 16 morganogrom said at 5:09 am on October 12th, 2003:

    Wait you’re only a Christian because you’re afraid of there being an afterlife?

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