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I was on a plane to Baltimore and got stuck next to two girls going to the same anime convention as me. Good thing? Noooo. There is a Nerd hierarchy, and let you tell me I am most assuredly above them. They were talking about stuff that made my ears bleed. But I remember also hearing one person say they had a friend who was a registered alchemist. I raged inside. RAGED. Fuck you Fullmetal Alchemist for making Alchemy popular again. Fuck you!
/rant
Anyway, I remember sitting in a classroom watching this high school news program and they were talking about the evolution/creationism debate. I was already atheist or well on my way at the time and I remembered how absurd it was, thinking that creationism obviously belonged in religion and couldn't grasp why there was an argument in the first place. Luckily, since I was raised Catholic, evolution was taught when we had our science books out and creationism was taught when we had our religion books out. I remember asking my girl scout teacher why there was Adam and Eve if we evolved from monkeys (I know, I know, that's not what happened, but I was like 12) and she couldn't answer and told me to ask the pastor. I never did, but when I went on to high school I was taught that Adam and Eve was a story representing humanities nature, or whatever. It made sense to me at the time, but I still rejected it anyway for other reasons and then eventually realized it didn't make any sense especially when you jump down the rabbit hole of god sacrificing himself for a sin that was represented in a story. Blah blah blah.
Anyway, point! I finally learned why there was a debate in the first place the more I learned about religion and atheism. Not all people who believe in religion are crazy creationists. People can reconcile Adam and Eve and evolution. But the fundies, who can't, push for creationism because evolution destroys their literal beliefs and threatens their children's brainwashing.
(July 17, 2009 at 5:41 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Everything is wrong with that! "Creation Science" (keyword "science") should not be taught in schools, period. "Creationism" in R.E sure, but we don't teach alchemy as a valid scientific concept, nor should we teach creation "science" as a valid scientific concept.
I was on a plane to Baltimore and got stuck next to two girls going to the same anime convention as me. Good thing? Noooo. There is a Nerd hierarchy, and let you tell me I am most assuredly above them. They were talking about stuff that made my ears bleed. But I remember also hearing one person say they had a friend who was a registered alchemist. I raged inside. RAGED. Fuck you Fullmetal Alchemist for making Alchemy popular again. Fuck you!
/rant
Anyway, I remember sitting in a classroom watching this high school news program and they were talking about the evolution/creationism debate. I was already atheist or well on my way at the time and I remembered how absurd it was, thinking that creationism obviously belonged in religion and couldn't grasp why there was an argument in the first place. Luckily, since I was raised Catholic, evolution was taught when we had our science books out and creationism was taught when we had our religion books out. I remember asking my girl scout teacher why there was Adam and Eve if we evolved from monkeys (I know, I know, that's not what happened, but I was like 12) and she couldn't answer and told me to ask the pastor. I never did, but when I went on to high school I was taught that Adam and Eve was a story representing humanities nature, or whatever. It made sense to me at the time, but I still rejected it anyway for other reasons and then eventually realized it didn't make any sense especially when you jump down the rabbit hole of god sacrificing himself for a sin that was represented in a story. Blah blah blah.
Anyway, point! I finally learned why there was a debate in the first place the more I learned about religion and atheism. Not all people who believe in religion are crazy creationists. People can reconcile Adam and Eve and evolution. But the fundies, who can't, push for creationism because evolution destroys their literal beliefs and threatens their children's brainwashing.
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." Benjamin Franklin
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