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trinityvixenAn evolution-Intelligent Design article escaped me, and I was so mad after reading the letters to the editor of The New York Times, I couldn't even properly read the original article. Hello again What's the Matter with Kansas?, my old friend. Let's couch our deconstruction and destruction of scientific rigor with the American ideal of giving everyone their fair shake. Bush, there's no way around this, you're a moron. I was cleaning up my gmail account last night and I came across the letters I wrote for about a month saying how I didn't support him. I'm tempted to take it up again, my own little cross to bear.
Long story short: scientists who support Intelligent Design ought to have their degrees taken away. That's it, that's how uncompromising I am at this point. Do I fault them for their faith? No. Do I think they must have seriously tainted appreciation for the basic requirements of scientific study? Yes. If you cannot think clearly enough to go 'observation-hypothesis-experiment-reexperiment-experiment some more-independent experiment on the same topic-tentative conclusions,' you don't deserve to have PhDs. That is the way it goes, and you either came to terms with its limiting your ability to insert your faith into your work, or you didn't. If you did, good for you, you've found the happy balance between God and man that is the reason God gave us all free will in the first place. If not, bugger off, would you?
Why did Dumbledore have to drink the potion? Would it not spill out of the cup like it wouldn't spill out of the basin? What if he just put it in his mouth and spat it? Or used a bigger cup and siphoned out the liquid into it and left it there? Why not line the back of his throat with a baggie or sponge or something to catch the liquid? Or is this some bullshit like the mirror of Erised where you have to be absolutely going to drink it for it to come out at all?
Was listening to this part on the train, made me very cranky given how the book ends. Still not a fan of Half-Blood Prince and don't think much will change on that score. Listening to it helps and hurts in ways. Jim Dale manages to gussy up Rowling's overwritten and undersupported romance problems, but the whole discussion of Horcruxes made my head spin. I counted and counted and counted again, and still couldn't come up with the six besides the one Voldemort is currently using or whatever. There's the ring, Slytherin's necklace, Hufflepuff's cup, Nagini, the Diary, and...something. Something that might be Ravenclaw's because it can't be Gryffindor's. Rrrrriiiiiight, Jo R. Is it just me, or does this feel an extremely lazy and hasty thing for her to have done? 'Oops, Voldemort can't get anything of Gryffindor's because I only created this one thing, so I'll just make it the bloody snake he keeps for a pet'? And 'something of Ravenclaw's' for bother. ::rolls eyes::
Lucy, you got some 'splainin' to do.
Long story short: scientists who support Intelligent Design ought to have their degrees taken away. That's it, that's how uncompromising I am at this point. Do I fault them for their faith? No. Do I think they must have seriously tainted appreciation for the basic requirements of scientific study? Yes. If you cannot think clearly enough to go 'observation-hypothesis-experiment-reexperiment-experiment some more-independent experiment on the same topic-tentative conclusions,' you don't deserve to have PhDs. That is the way it goes, and you either came to terms with its limiting your ability to insert your faith into your work, or you didn't. If you did, good for you, you've found the happy balance between God and man that is the reason God gave us all free will in the first place. If not, bugger off, would you?
Why did Dumbledore have to drink the potion? Would it not spill out of the cup like it wouldn't spill out of the basin? What if he just put it in his mouth and spat it? Or used a bigger cup and siphoned out the liquid into it and left it there? Why not line the back of his throat with a baggie or sponge or something to catch the liquid? Or is this some bullshit like the mirror of Erised where you have to be absolutely going to drink it for it to come out at all?
Was listening to this part on the train, made me very cranky given how the book ends. Still not a fan of Half-Blood Prince and don't think much will change on that score. Listening to it helps and hurts in ways. Jim Dale manages to gussy up Rowling's overwritten and undersupported romance problems, but the whole discussion of Horcruxes made my head spin. I counted and counted and counted again, and still couldn't come up with the six besides the one Voldemort is currently using or whatever. There's the ring, Slytherin's necklace, Hufflepuff's cup, Nagini, the Diary, and...something. Something that might be Ravenclaw's because it can't be Gryffindor's. Rrrrriiiiiight, Jo R. Is it just me, or does this feel an extremely lazy and hasty thing for her to have done? 'Oops, Voldemort can't get anything of Gryffindor's because I only created this one thing, so I'll just make it the bloody snake he keeps for a pet'? And 'something of Ravenclaw's' for bother. ::rolls eyes::
Lucy, you got some 'splainin' to do.
