I want to say that if one says s/he is from the "Badlands" (SD) it would have the same filllthaaaaay branding as if one were to say s/he were from "Hell's Kitchen" (prior to the NYC neighborhood's gentrification.) I wish I was from a badass place. BUt that's ok! I still really super love JErsey City.
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C was telling me about her cross country road trip last year, and how much she loved it. She mentioned stopping by Badlands National Park in SD, and I googled it since I didn't know that much about the place. Upon reading the visitor's guide, I was really taken by the pictures capturing all the geologic striation in the rocks...I really love that those layers are the proof of Earth's age, etc. (And omg! HI! I LOVE to geeek out ...sometimes.) Recently, I caught a PBS special on the religious right trying to rehash creationism in the form of "intelligent design" in order to push it into classroom curricula. And I would just like to point those fanatics to the carbon dates embedded in those rocks, disproving the Earth's age = age of the Old Testament. That is just crazy to me. What's crazier is that they turn into these nonsensical arguments in larger, more visible pockets of society. IE:
And Sherri was one of my favorite sitcom comedians, too. :*( "Baby, we gotta go the library" ?!?1?1?!?!?1/2/12/1?!??!?!?!?!? 4realzies? That baffles me....when people synthesize information...like THAT. Literature can not be miscontrued as science fact. MAN! (And let me be real, I do not enjoy watching Whoopi attack Sherri, and I do recognize that fucked up power dynamic. BUT! that is another entry. Mayeb one about DV.) Anyway, this geeeking out over geology and environmental science made me remember that H and I got into a convo, and I didn't know a thing about bedrock or tetonic plates, despite there apparently being an active fault line right inthe NYC area!
WOWOWOOW!
Yes. This is how I spent Black Friday.
ps: why is thanksgiving a time for television to get all buck nutty with the regularly scheduled programming? allls i'm saying is that if it's 7 pm, and jeopardy is not on with trebek's xenophobe ass, i will experience a case of the UPSETS.
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Okay, this is one of my pet peeves. God created the universe, yes. In the Bible it's also said He created men from mud, yes?
ReplyDeleteNow, tell me this: if God came down on high and told someone that man came from millions of years of evolution, from single-cell lifeforms floating around in the Earth's oceans, would it make sense to the layman during the time of the Bible's writing? Or would simply saying "you were created from mud" make more sense to them?
Frankly, I think it's more ingenious to create life that is adaptable to whatever the hell is thrown at it than to just simply create a few million set species of life and call it a day.
And, more importantly, who are we to even explain exactly how God created us? Some mortal man many many moons ago writes down a couple of pages about the creation of the universe and we're supposed to believe it over hard scientific data gathered over hundreds of years that proves evolution has occurred?
I just don't get how people get to pick and choose which parts of the Bible to take literally, and which parts to take figuratively, and impose those beliefs on others while breeding ignorance and squashing any attempt to empower future generations with important scientific knowledge and, more importantly, showing them that questioning and investigating how something in the universe works or came to be is immoral and wrong.
I'm just sayin, is all.