Thursday, May 4, 2006

   still looking for anime characters that blur the gender line....
see some previous entry for details. time's running out, if you want to help, i'm giving you until the 19 of may. i probably have enough characters as is, but...anyway, before i say anything else, a warning: this entry may get highly opinionated. you have been warned. ok, now for the real post.
we're getting into the "origins of life" section of biology, which, with all the "evolution vs. intelligent design" crap going on, has become biased and it makes me mad. i go into class, hoping to hear equally ballanced arguments for both sides (and alternate theories, because i'm curious what peole that don't believe in either believe in) but it's extremely biased towards the "intelligent design" theory. AAAAAGGHHH!!!! not that i'm not religious or anything (and i DO believe in this "evolution crap" thank you very much), it's just that i don't consider intelligent design something that really needs to be mentioned in school. it's not scientific. science should be taught in science class. plus, with the whole new law thing, it seems that they have to talk about ALL the flaws of the evolution theory to make people happy. hello!! it's a THEORY!!! theories aren't necessarily proven fact!! and while some of the major flaws should be talked about, with the rate that we're going, the theory of evolution will be reduced to nothing but a wives' tale. it's really getting annoying. it got to the extreme today where we were talking about the likeliness of evolution occurring and we had to do this worksheet where there were a bunch of items listed (rock, car, computer, stalactite, cloud, screwdriver) and we had to use common sense to say what was man-made and waht wasn't and then answer a question about if we saw a pattern among the non natural and natural things, so it would help us form an opinion about evolution...but with the way that it was set up, it was pretty much like saying "look, see how something intelligent had to intervene? see how the natural stuff is asymmetrical, fairly random, and doesn't seem to have an organized structure?" and the final question on the paper (i can't remember how it was worded exactly) asked something about "judging by your answers to the previous questions, does it seem like evolution could happen naturally" or something like that...it practically forced you to agree with intelligent design!!! it made me really mad, because i had to somehow "agree" that evolution didn't seem to fit in with natural processes. to avoid saying outright that it seemed like it wasn't right, i said something along the lines of "according to these examples, evolution does not fit" but i hated doing it. and it doesn't help that my bio teacher is one of the leaders in students for christ, which i am in, and he knows me fairly well, and now i feel like i can't say how i truly feel...this is not what i need! i just finished getting over religious issues at the beginning of this year (i was second-guessing what i believed in, and i didn't even know what i believed in anymore)which tore me apart, and i don't need a repeat of stuff like that. it doesn't help that i live in the "bible belt" (the area that includes central pennsylvania, some of ohio, and i forget wehre else) that is full of people who think you have to believe their way or die, and it is majorly republican (no offense, republicans (i'm an independent)..you're not all that bad...i do have republican beliefs, too.), so they're all pro "intelligent design". agh. whoooooo i feel better now. sorry, taht was long. i'll try to write shorter entries. oh, how do you guys make a layout? mine is..um...dull. and i have tech issues...lol...any help is appreciated! thanks!
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