Sometimes
doing simple things just makes me think.
The eating of a pomegranate for instance. Ever eaten one? Some people not even sure about what a
pomegranate is. Or if they do, what it
looks like. My local supermarket sells
them and the first time I bought one, cassier person went all extatic. First person ever to buy one at his register.
Yay me and my Gold Medal Events. Ok, shouldn’t say this. Maybe someone of Olympics Committee reads
this and then they’ll say am mocking athletes.
Which am not. No mocking of
Olympians here. Really. Shoo.
Ok, some mocking of people who sent angry message to Ravelry when they
wanted to do something related to Olympics.
With yarn. But that was
disrespectful. Or something. Google is your friend once more.
So Thoughts
While Eating Pomegranate. Which is a
very yummy fruit btw. Just takes some
time to eat it. Lots of little thingies
to be fished out. And you’d want to be
careful about it because while the thingies are sweet and yummy, the skins
between the thingies is Bitter with capital B.
Definitely don’t want to eat that.
So was happily digging away in the pomegranate and suddenly got in touch
with inner primate. Wonderful what we
can do with our hands. Yay for one of Evolution’s
Biggest Boons: opposable thumbs. Insert
Friends scene with Ross and Phoebe.
Nineties flashback! Ok, late
nineties. Still, nineties! Was so young in the nineties. Never want to go back. Have nothing against nineties. Just. Well. Didn’t have time of life. Life started at about 20 for me. Sweet sixteen? No wai.
Shudders. Anyhow.
Wonder when
we did get opposable thumbs. According
to some people we got them around October 22nd 4004 BC. Not sure whether that date is the Fiat Lux et
Lux Erat – moment or the Makes-Man-in-His-Image-moment. But well, give or take a day or six. And then of course there is the question on
which day this happened. I’m guessing
Thursday. That way God was in the clear
for all the fixed days of rest of his future followers.
It remains
a mystery to me how anyone can actually believe that. I’ll break my head over it time and time
again. Probably shouldn’t waste time
trying to ponder it out. But. Just.
Cannot. Grasp. It. And this goes far. I was shocked to find out that in this
country (the Netherlands) there is a huge amount of people who think Genesis
actually happened. The poof. Light.
Poof. Plants. Poof animals.
Poof. Man. Not poof but let’s just tear a rib out of my
clay project and make something else.
Woman. Did the same thing happen
with all the female animals? Nothing of the
kind is mentioned. Or were there female
animals and the fact that we initially did not have Woman is caused by an Oops,
I Has a Stupid of God?
That would
be only one of the many questions left unanswered by creationists. Well, technically not unanswered. Nor question, because we should not
question. Crystal clear story
there. What’s to question. Well.
I can think of a thing or two.
Anywayz, most excellent text on that already exists. The Whole Silly Flood Story. Really.
A text of yayness!
So, people
in the Netherlands for Genesis. So many
that a few years ago, during the Darwin year, they’d spread millions of flyers
to discourage people from going for Evolution.
Cleverly disguised as a list of eh… well… what to call them… facts? And
then at the end they’d ask something like, what would you rather believe? At least over here we’re not using government
money to get Nessie in our schoolbooks as a way to counter those silly
evolutionists. I know. If I were to
convince someone of my right and the Complete and Utter Ridiculity of a
scientific theory, would totally go for Nessie too. There’s nothing that says truth like a
legendary monster no one’s ever seen.
Hmmm. Ok, maybe I do get why they
use something legendary no one’s ever seen and whose existence is a tad
doubtful. Oh. Oops.
Sorry about that.
Anywayz. Just don’t get it. Where I come from (Belgium!) no one has problems
with evolution afaik (well, am sure _some_
people do, but most of time they have the sense to shut up about it) We learn about it at school. And the catholic schools are no exception. When Darwin’s ideas became known at the end of
the 19th century, the Belgian church went “oh, ok, so God started
evolution”. Problem solved. Yay! And
there was much rejoice. Etc. So.
Will simply remain to be baffled by this. Then again.
Any kind of extremism baffles me.
Like, closing down websites on Sunday.
WTF? Ok, maybe that’s innocent in
itself, but it’s the principle of the thing.
And that’s
enough ranting I suppose. Though can go
on about this for some time. To end with
something positive. Saw some awesome BBC
shows on the subject a while ago. Maybe
they can be found online. Prehistoric
autopsy it was called. Three nights of
going back in time and rebuilding an ancestor.
Or in the case of the Neanderthal, a relative. Personal favourite was the Homo erectus boy
they’d build (using those fancy techniques to recreate faces they also use in
crime investigation): Nariokotome
Boy. He looked absolutely
spectacular. And learned some neat things
about Homo erectus in the process. Watching programs like that always make me
regret I didn’t become a paleonthologist or an archaeologist. Oh the niftehness. But woe the patience and my lack thereof. So well.
Teehee.
Oh. And saw nice and nifty program last Friday on
Big Bang. Which has nothing to do with
evolution of course, but was nice program.
More Big Bang: one boxset of Big Bang Theory coming my way. Hopefully.
Still. Wieeeee!
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