ID=shit

Note: the whole thing with the title is a takeoff on the title for the Slipknot song, "People=Shit", with ID being an abbreviation of "Intelligent Design", and of course expresses my feelings on such bullshit :)

So, as I am certain you may have figured out from the title and following explanation, I have quite a bone to pick with ID and all of the morons who think that it ought to be taught in schools. Right, so this all came up cause, and many of you nonexistant readers probably know this, of the article on ID in the newest issue of Time Magazine. Now, I do not really know exactly what brought all of this up recently, but I would not be surprised if the History Channel's "Ape to Man" show had something to do with it all, maybe.

Right off I'm just gonna say that ID is a bunch of shit made up by people who are too faith-blinded to accept anything other than the literal interpretation of the Bible and who are also too stupid to connect the dots and think "Hmm, maybe it took a little more than 6 days, and oh look, this evolution stuff makes a lot of sense". Our country is full of a lot of very stupid people, I'm afraid, and that means that a lot of them are going to try and press their bullshit beliefs on everyone else. Sound familiar? Slavery? Racism? Anti-homosexuality? Anti-abortion? Need I go further? Oh, and if you're dumb: CONSERVATIVE FUCKING REPUBLICANS!

With that off my chest, I think I shall proceed and give all the information that a rational person would need to come to the conclusion that evolution is not some great pile of crap. First off, there is the whole detail of there not being any other theory out there. Oh, and the fact that it is a THEORY which means that it's as close to a fact as you can get without having a time machine and being able to watch every damn minute of the history of the planet. Furthermore, if you think that it's just downright impossible for something like an eye to develope, then why not think of it this way: it is possible that a cell could get zapped, mutate, and become photosensitve, yes? And that would certainly give the organism a major advantage over all of the others, right? So, it's therefore quite likely to pass on the traight to its offspring, and even if it doesn't, that's not to say it won't happen with something else. Then, it's just a matter of the eye mutating properly over the course of millions of years before you finally get a recognizable eye. Rember, this takes a very long time.

Then there's the whole "but there's holes in the fossil record!" argument. Unfortunately, not everything fossilizes, as I am sure that you all know, making it incredibly unlikely that there would be a fossil of every single step in the evolutionary process. So, barring a having a time machine to go back and look with, we have to make inferences, just like murder investigators who don't have vdeo footage of what goes on. Now, all you conservatives sure don't have much of a problem with tossing people in jail and often times even killed them without having concrete, indisputable evidence as to their guilt, yet when it comes to something that clashes with your beliefs, you're more than happy to reverse your strategy. Furthermore, the conditions on earth are and have been such that it is more than possible that organisms that are important to the evolution of life have never been found as fossils. The fact is that it takes a rather incredible set of circumstances to make a fossil, so to have that happen with every link in the chain is just downright absurd, and expecting it to is even more foolhardy.

I would also like to say that I believe that the people who are making these anti-evolution arguments are closeminded fools who do not like to accept what is reality. Show me substantial proof that evolution is wrong, like a T-rex in the pre-cambrean era, and I'll be more than happy to acknowledge that evolution is wrong. However, to cling to fading beliefs that arose from a brutal, ignorant time like they are the only thing holding you together is pretty damn sad. Now, I'm not gonna give you all an anti-religion lecture today, but you can sure as hell bet that you're gonna get one sooner or later.

Furthermore, to try and teach ID in schools is un-Constitutional, but of course, Mr. Jackass-Bush has done his very best to try and change all of that with his nice little supreme court nominations and such forth. Well, if you think that teaching kids that life formed when some big mysterious "engineer" tinkered around with stuff, then you are not only evangelizing them, if subtly, but you are breaking straight through that whole separation of church and state thing that is quite clearly spelled out in the Constitution. And if you are going to try and tell me that you're not forcing god on these kids, then I suppose you must be supporting the existance of aliens or some other bullshit. Pick your poison on that count, then get back to me and I'll rip you apart some more.

So, here are just a few reasons why ID is absolutely bullsiht. But for the most part, it's really just depressing because it's another example of stupid people being unable to see reality and accept it and therefore they try desperately to come up with some bullshit excuse for their beliefs that never stands the test of time so long as there are those who don't share the same views controlling 1/2 of the country. Now, I desperately hope that the next generation is going to be able to go to school and not get evangelized, and I am confident that people like me are going to continue to make our voices heard, but there is a very troubling rise in conservative-ism in the country lately, and it may just be that this is the intro phase to a western version of Iran or Saudi Arabia, or worse. Well, if that's the case, then I'm gonna fight it, and hope that I either win, or die/leave the country before things get too bad.

In short, I just want to say that this all saddens me greatly, and I wish that you conservative people could understand what you're doing.

PS: on a lighter, more annyoing note, I've had "Surfacing" stuck in my head for the last couple hours and it's starting to piss me off. So here it is:

"Fuck it all, fuck this world, fuck everything that you stand for; don't belong, don't exist, don't give a shit, don't ever judge me!"