I have a lot of thoughts about religion, beliefs, and the like... I'll try to vent them individually and over time so no one has to read 12-page ramblings about organized religion and fanaticism.
The big debate in Florida now is whether to teach evolution in public schools. Of course religous people don't want this scientific mumbo jumbo clouding up their kids' impreesionable young minds.
Why are the parents of these children so concerned that their kids might lose faith in religion if they weren't losing faith themselves? Why does anyone in this world want to just believe closed-mindedly rather than accept truth for what it is and maybe reconsider how their faith plays into it?
What I love is that the "compromise" reached on the issue of teaching it in public schools was to throw "The scientific theory of..." in front of it. That makes everything OK to you Intelligent Design folk? Your scientific ignorance is rivaled only by your lack of comprehension of a child's understanding of what they're taught in school. When was the last time you heard a 9-year old say "Yeah, but it's only a theory..."? Darwin wins. 1-0.
