So past week or so been stumbling through life(which sadly consists of mainly school) as usual. Still working on getting my World of Warcraft account sold. I finished Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan and now I am finishing up That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis. Speaking of which I was reading it during advocate today and read something which I found very amusing. Let me set the scene. There is a big storyline but I won't bother filling you in all you need to know is the general situation. So there are some women and some men living in this manor and they rotate who does the work on which days, so on some days the women do all the work and the next day the men will do all the work. Well, on this occasion a woman who is new to the scene questions the women on this and they tell her basically that it is because men and women don't get along while working. A man who is in the kitchen at the time hears the conversation and proceeds to give his opinion. This is how the scene comes out:
"But why should they quarrel?" asked Jane(the new girl). "Different methods, my dear. Men can't help in a job, you know. They can be induced to do it: not to help while you're doing it. At least, it makes them grumpy." "The cardinal difficulty," said MacPhee(the man), "in collaboration between the sexes is that women speak a language without nouns. If two men are doing a bit of work, one will say to the other, ' Put this bowl inside the bigger bowl which you'll find on the top shelf of the green cupboard.' The female for this is 'Put that in the other one in there.' And then if you ask them,'In where?' they say, 'in there, of course.' There is consequently a phatic hiatus."

Maybe it's just me but I found the bit about women not using nouns to be totally true and nearly burst out laughing when I read it, being in class though I had to keep it to a soft chuckle. There is also probably a bit of truth about men not wanting to help do the work but I haven't taken the time to look into that.

On a different track now. Just recently the Kansas board of education decided to teach Intelligent Design(creation theory) in their schools. This is a very huge step towards who knows what as Kansas is the first state to do this and although I could really care less if they teach it or not in schools and I don't mind the theory of evolution being taught it seems that in our schools evolution isn't a theory anymore and evolution is just accepted as fact. For this reason at least I am happy that creation is going to be taught in Kansas and maybe elsewhere in the future. That's how I feel concerning the matter because I'm not really sure how they are going to teach it or I would say I am very happy that they are teaching creation in schools but for the moment I will have to wait for further information. Here is an article talking about this move by the Kansas school board.
And now on to what actually provoked me to post about this move by the Kansas folks. Not mixing science with religion seems to have alot of people upset over this new ordeal in Kansas...and with all honesty it just got my goat. If you have a religion and firmly believe in it then it is going to invade every part of your life. The problem is that people that don't have a relationship with God can't understand that. I find it very difficult to not mix my religion with my science when studying the structure of plants and animals when I believe to the depth of my being that what my teacher tells me, that the way they are structured is due to evolutionary processes, is completely wrong. OBVIOUSLY I am in the wrong for allowing belief to interfere with objective study. According to my Biology II teacher I am. She stated, not directly at me, that "belief plays a very important role in an individual's life but does not belong in the realm of science." This just seems like she is trying to please the religious people in the classroom by not saying straight up that they are wrong. What she is really saying seems totally ignorant to me, BELIEF in something like God is not something you can put aside or use when you want. GOD IS IN OUR LIVES. Belief isn't a thought. Belief in God isn't "yeah I think there is a god who made us". So to wrap up this whole rant, evolution and creation are both theories viewed objectivley;however, creation being part of my belief is obviously going to influence my science because frankly, I could care less about "my science". If you can set aside your belief then it isn't really belief.

"If you could prove me wrong it wouldn't be belief and if I stopped believing once I realized I couldn't prove I was right it wouldn't be faith."

Well, next post I should have some info on the evolution of viruses, I thought it was interesting that viruses are said to have evolved but aren't classified as alive so I will be doing some reading up on that and posting what I find.

and now I'm sleepy so Gnight.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. ~ Friedrick Nietzsche