designing intelligence

and what of evolution, can you honestly say you have any sort of scientific proof that species evolve and change into other species over time?... and what of intelligent design, can you actually say you have any sort of scientific proof that everything was created by some intelligence?... whatever… everybody's got an opinion, ya know?…

in the news in Florida this past week or few, there is much debate (or at least i read an article somewhere) about some public hearings about the school curriculum in this state (which gets an F from at least one respected education system rating source and has been in the bottom 10% of the fifty states for as long as Florida has been a state in this country… in the eighties, it was 49th with only Mississippi beneath it… i believe it moved all the way up to 47th in the last few years… shameful if you are into shame)… the great debate revolves around the science curriculum at the moment, specifically addressing the religion right's thinly disguised attempts to inject creationism into the science curriculum as if god and the who judeo-christian bible story could be scientifically proven like any other scientific theory…

ah, sweet science, so misunderstood… ironically, this attempt at forcing the bible down into the curriculum dressed up as something called intelligent design as if there is legitimate scientific credibility to the story of creation opens the door to closer scrutiny of the science curriculum itself and those with some measure of actual intelligence are raising the question about evolution, specifically, why is evolution not part of the official state science curriculum?...

creationists and those who'd rather placate the religious might point out that evolution is not banned from being taught in school, it just does not get the official stamp of approval as a science or important enough to be for mandatory inclusion in the science curriculum in this state… apparently a hundred and fifty years of scientific study in anthropology, genetics, geology, biology, chemistry, and other respected sciences that support the theory of evolution is not enough evidence to warrant an official mention of the concept… but of course a few years of underhanded misrepresentation of facts that is called intelligent design is worthy of official inclusion in the science curriculum, right?...

obviously some people do not understand the meaning of the word intelligent or intelligence as they certainly make no effort to demonstrate any… but then, why should we expect the word that is part of one of the most obvious oxymorons ever (MI5, anyone?) to be any less oxymoronic in it's latest use?... when will people finally understand that anything based on fear cannot be intelligent because fear dummies down, distorts, and usually destroys everything in it's path… hopefully before we are all destroyed by it…

so here are my momentary thoughts on ID (intelligent design):

so let's say for a moment you take a leap of faith to believe a god-being created everything… when you look around at everything, how in the world can you call that intelligent?...

*mock bow*

ummmm, ok, so i offend more people than i amuse, but then, i amuse myself and in the end, who else really cares?... not those who'd condemn me, for sure… and not those who'd try to change me either… nope, caring is a verb, something we do that is positive and nurturing and supportive and beautiful… caring does not happen in a philosophy that includes fire and brimstone baths for those who do not follow blindly… caring is not telling someone i love you, but you are going to hell… caring has no need or use for the concept of hell… it is the antithesis of love… it is the result of repressing love and substituting fear…

and now, for something completely different (not really), we bring you the odd dance "_blank">of the fruit flies…







i rest my case…