hmmmmmmmmm venting
I just wanted to spread my wings some and stand on principle over that bullshit known as INTELLIGENT DESIGN. See, I think Americans as whole have been getting the scientific method and religious belief mixed up. I'm not sure if this is due to ignorance, or national testing standards elimanating rational thinking from the schools. But evolution is a theory. At this point it has admittedly become something of a given in the scientific community, but it is still a theory, and as such, can be built on and modified. Einstein took Newton's work and took it to an entirely different place, Schrodinger transcended physics to speculate on the nature of DNA, still unknown when he began his work. This differentiates science, where a rigid methodology tests all hypotheses before they are accepted, from revealed religion. GE Lessing said once that revelation is the education of the human race. It does not teach us anything that we as a species could not learn on our own, but merely speeds it up. As such, rational observation of nature yields as much if not more information than religious revelation. If all is God, how can the examination of God's creation be wrong? Is it not more likely that after millenia of translation and reinterpretion, combined with dogmatic presuppositions, scriptural authority is as faulty as Dr Ricuarte's study of ecstasy?(he famously shot up animals with a MASSIVE overdose of methamphetamines, not MDMA, and claimed that the resulting heart trauma and brain damage was due to MDMA use, which even if he had used the proper chemical, would have been FAR more than the average ecstasy casualty takes in a lifespan). That was science, and as such was disproved. You can't disprove revelation, and as such, it DOES NOT BELONG IN THE SCIENCE CLASSROOM.