Long time no see.

Haven't posted here for several years, look to start again maybe.

Goth Fly a Kite IV

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I HATE people.

(preamble: ok, so one of the major thorns in my side is the whole evolution/(un)intelligent design fiasco.)

anyway, i was surfing ebay looking for a neat little boxed set on evolution that i've been wanting for a while and i stumbled across this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/THE-SCIENCE-OF-EVOLUTION-DVD-Christian-Ray-Comfort_W0QQitemZ6467600770QQcategoryZ617QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

here's (one of)my major point of irritation:

it's called 'the science of evolution'

and THIS is part of its description

This DVD is unique in that it doesn't follow the usual format of Christian experts exposing the theory. Instead, it lets evolutionary believers put their own foot in their own mouth simply by asking them probing questions. Join Kirk and Ray as they take an orangutan to lunch, and call major airlines and ask if a "relative" can join them on a plane. The graphics on this DVD have been designed so that there is no indication that it is Christian or anti-evolution.

this asshole specifically attempts to hide all association with the fact that this is a wholly christian endeavor. (isn't lying one of your fucking mortal sins? you fucking bastard).

now if you set out to disprove evolution, fine, disprove it.

I dare you to.

but to specifically set out to hide who you are & discredit a valid scientific theory through contrived interviews?

Ray Comfort is the lying sack of shit behind this disgusting bit of propaganda.

and he is now added, by name, to the ever-growing list of fuckheads that i hate.
when the universe decides to wipe this asshole out i shall rejoice.

hell, i think a bunch of evolutionists (i.e. fairly rational human beings) should make a presence at his funeral. (much like several asshole 'christians' do when high profile gay folk die) with big signs say loud & clear 'thank mighty fuck you're gone'

so i reiterate....I HATE people.

-De

I Want to Thank God...

that god can't be taught in school... well in PA anyway.i love what the judge(jones) had to say (a republican christian no less)
Jones decried the “breathtaking inanity”
&
"(intelligent design)presents students with a religious alternative masquerading as a scientific theory, directs them to consult a creationist text as though it were a science resource and instructs students to forgo scientific inquiry in the public school classroom and instead to seek out religious instruction elsewhere."
&
In his ruling, Jones said that while intelligent design, or ID, arguments “may be true, a proposition on which the court takes no position, ID is not science.” Among other things, he said intelligent design “violates the centuries-old ground rules of science by invoking and permitting supernatural causation”; it relies on “flawed and illogical” arguments.
and did the proponents of (un)intelligent design take it well, no the main party (dover) had this to say:
“I’m still waiting for a judge or anyone to show me anywhere in the Constitution where there’s a separation of church and state,” he said. “We didn’t lose; we were robbed.”
well sir though technically right, the constitution also doesn't say 'right to a fair trial' so you can blame it on that....

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We're All Monkeys!

So here’s another evolution vs. (un)intelligent design post. Now I know that no moron in support of teaching (un)intelligent design is going to read this post & come around to a sensible way of looking at things. By the very act of believing, in (un)intelligent design, it shows that they do not have the capacity to reason much higher than the apes. (that we descended from by the by.)

So first we’ll look at what a theory is in the scientific realm;

‘A theory is an established paradigm that explains all or much of the data we have and offers valid predictions that can be tested. In science, a theory is never considered fact or infallible, because we can never assume we know all there is to know. Instead, theories remain standing until they are disproven, at which point they are thrown out altogether or modified to fit the additional data.’

Evolution is the only theory that fits all the information that we have. It is a theory that is not fully complete, thus not yet scientific law, but it is on par with the theory of relativity for reliability (maybe even more so, it’s had an extra 50 years of refinement). However everything about the theory fits neatly within all of the data. Almost every single day we humans come up with new data & knowledge and ALL of it point to evolution. There is not one bit of data that makes evolution an invalid theory. Every day that we unravel another genome, breed a new funky mouse, discover some new variation of life, it all makes the theory of evolution stronger.
(and for any of you fucking monkeys out there who think ‘well, it just doesn’t make sense to me’. It doesn’t have to make sense to you, if all of the scientific theories had to ‘make sense’ to you then we still wouldn’t have figured out to bang the fucking rocks together.)

(un)intelligent design does not fit any data. There is not a single set of datum which points toward ‘a guiding hand’ in life. (un)intelligent design is just fucking hope & a smile, hope you didn’t blink because if you did you missed our ‘proof’.

Well, here it is, the (un)intelligent design proof;
‘well, it makes sense, I mean come on guys, there’s just no way something as complex as me could be made any way other than by god, oops, I meant (un)intelligent design!’
(hey monkey-boy, this seems a bit vain & prideful? Aren’t those sins? You ignorant fuck!)

But there is one thing on sciences side (not including some of the best minds this world has ever known, facts, reality, et al.), there is a legal definition of what constitutes science here america:

1)The theoretical underpinnings of the methods must yield testable predictions by means of which the theory could be falsified.
2)The methods should preferably be published in a peer-reviewed journal.
3)There should be a known rate of error that can be used in evaluating the results.
4)The methods should be generally accepted within the relevant scientific community.

Hmmmm…….looks like (un)intelligent design doesn’t stand up to a single one of them, so if it can’t stand up to any of the criteria for what makes science, then why should it be taught in science class?
Should we teach about the ‘ether’ & how fire is made because of phlogiston as well?

So please, for love of the (un)intelligent designer, shut up, go home.

You’re going to lose, don’t waste my tax money on lengthy trials that only prove you’re an idiot.

FUCKING!
MONKEY!

-De

Oust the Bastards

So many things have been altered in the wake of Katrina, one of them is the tens of thousands of displaced families. As these families move to new areas at the start of the school year they’ll be enrolling their children in new school districts. I was listening to NPR the other day and they were doing a short about how this was going to affect already under funded schools. They then went on to say ‘under funded schools are primarily in rural and urban areas.’

So what I want to know is what schools are not under funded?

Some people have noted that possibly the ‘suburbs’ are the only area with good schools, however the federal funding program does not have such a designation. There are only urban & rural areas. (specifically referred to as metropolitan & non-metropolitan counties).

So as near as I can figure, correct me if I’m wrong, if neither metro & non-metro areas are receiving proper educational funding, then doesn’t that mean that basically no one is getting a good education? I think it’s interesting (in a morbidly fascinating sort of way) that our politicians love to restrict so many of our freedoms under the guise of ‘it’s for the children’, yet they seem utterly unable to proactively educate these children. To me it seems much more valuable to teach a child basic math & reading than to ban HBO from having swearing & violence.

Somehow, no matter how much lip service the politico pays to the need to educate our young, I don’t believe they mean it. For if all americans were properly educated (especially the poor) then the ad machines the politicians use wouldn’t fool people. Politicians would need to be more honest, be held accountable, in essence they would lose their modern aristocracy. If you don’t think a modern aristocracy exists, then explain the bushes & kennedys. & those are just the big 2 families, our royalty.

A better educated public would demand higher standards from their politicians. The current administration realizes obtaining these standards would be detrimental to them. They realize that what is good for the public, and even the future of this nation, is not good for them. And so they have slowly been eroding the education system, knowing that as america becomes dumber their positions become more secure & richer, with less accountability.

Now is this a concerted, sinister conspiracy by this nations politicians? Probably not, but the politicians are taking advantage of america’s sad state of ignorance, and the measures they are taking to teach the next generation are filled with more photo-ops than teachers.


But they tell me it’s for the children.

-De