Zoe’s Journal

Tonight, the LotR and I were watching the Suns game - well, let me rephrase that. I was watching the Suns game, and the LotR was flipping the channels during every commercial break to watch a documentary on Intelligent Design vs. Evolution. It was basically a rerun of the whole Dover, KS school board fiasco last year, and the show actually filmed reenactments of the trials. Obviously, the channel was evolution-biased, which, I have to agree, is the only way to go. They made lots of excellent points showing how Intelligent Design is not a scientific theory, that it is, in fact, creationism in a different-colored cloak. The reason why it’s not a scientific theory? It’s not testable or provable, as all scientific theories have to be in order to be classified as such. The judge brilliantly called it out as unscientific, and irrefutably a ploy by those who practice the christian religion. Ironically, though he angered meek, obedient, law-abiding christians, they are the very ones who deluged his email inbox with death threats and angry emails. One of the guys on the documentary actually called him a jackass. Why? For upholding the Constitution? Yes, the Constitution does protect freedom of speech. It does not endorse the religion impressionism of young children. In fact, if we read the constitution correctly, isn’t there something in there about ’separation of the church and state’? I thought so.

Need I mention that I got sucked into the show, and completely missed the end of the Suns game? No worries there, we beat those New York Knicks good.

In other news… well, not that much else is going on. Just work… no school lately, but a LOMA course that I have one more chapter to finish.

Have I mentioned that I love jalapeños from the can?!

Is it just me, or is anyone else out there getting just a little bit tired of hyper-sensitive jackasses?

It seems every day there is a new story in the news, about how so-and-so said something, and it really offended this such-and-such group - they should really express a public apology. Anything to do with any different race, any different country, and the perpetrator of that vile deed is screwed.

For christ’s sake, the U.S. gets made more fun of than any other nationality out there - we’re fat, we’re short, we’re stupidly republican, conservative, can’t even explore stem-cell research, and to top it all off, we’re damn cocky and think we run the whole show. Yet, I don’t see anyone apologizing for calling Americans ’stupid, cellulite-prone bigoted jerks’. But every time we say something about any other country - well, take this for example. The show Desperate Housewives [god forbid I ever even see one episode], had a small joke in it, that used Philippine medicinal education as the punch line. The officials of that country threw a fit and demand an apology. How did they even hear about that?!

Don’t forget about Sasha Cohen’s Borat, and the uproar he caused with Kazakhstan leaders. Sporadic name-calling in Los Angeles by celebrities, who in turn, get sued up the whazoo. Comments by comedians are condemned by the Catholic church as ‘hate speech’ [see, Suck it, Jesus], and the tempest over muslim comics on the web was blatantly unacceptable.

It seems that we are no longer a country of free speech. What a shame.

This is getting to be out of hand. I demand an apology, folks.

Back a few months ago, I wrote an entry referencing a website… well, here’s what I wrote:

While reading Pharyngula, one of the blogs I’m currently reading, I came across a post in which he linked this link… and like him, I had to wonder whether or not it was satire. Unfortunately, it appears NOT to be, and is, in fact, completely serious.

I guess that some people actually do believe that the earth is stationary and that.. well, see for yourself. Just know that I am unaffiliated and unconnected with this site… www.reformation.org

The subject of the website is that one of its articles maintains that the sun orbits around the earth, not the other way around! I was therefore VERY shocked and amused when I got this comment today, on that post. Yes, a real live person named Micky actually posted this.

Micky Says:
July 13th, 2007 at 4:33 am e

Sixty-Seven Scriptural References
Which Tell Us That It Is The Sun
And Not The Earth That Moves

Genesis 15:12….. “…and when the sun was going down…”
15:17….. “… when the sun went down…”
19:23….. “The sun was risen upon the earth.”
28:11….. “… because the sun was set….”
32:31….. “… the sun rose….”
Exodus 17:12….. “… until the going down of the sun….”
22:3…… “… if the sun be risen upon him….”
22:26…. “…the sun goeth down….”
Leviticus 22:7…… “…And when the sun is down….”
Numbers 2:3…….. “…toward the rising of the sun….”
Deuteronomy 11:30….. “…the way where the sun goeth down….”
16:6……. “…at the going down of the sun….”
23:11….. “…when the sun is down….”
24:13….. “…when the sun goeth down….”
24:15….. “…neither shall the sun go down….”
Joshua 1:4….. “…the going down of the sun….”
8:29… “…as soon as the sun was down….”
10:12.. “…Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon….”
10:13.. “…and the sun stood still….”
10:27.. “…the time of the going down of the sun….”
12:1…. “…toward the rising of the sun….”
Judges 5:31…. “…as the sun when he goeth down….”
8:13…. “…before the sun was up….”
9:33…. “…as soon as the sun is up….”
14:18…. “…before the sun went down….”
19:14…. “…and the sun went down….”
II Samuel 2:24…. “…the sun went down….”
3:35…. “…till the sun be down….”
23:4….. “…when the sun riseth….”
I Kings 22:36…. “…the going down of the sun….”
I Chronicles 16:30…. “…the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved….”
II Chronicles 18:34…. “…time of the sun going down….”
Job 9:7…. “…commandeth the sun and it riseth not….”
Job 26:7…. “…He hangeth the earth upon nothing….”
Psalm 19:4…. “…tabernacle for the sun….”
19:5 … “…cometh out to run….”
19:6…. “…goes forth in a circle from one end of heaven to the other….”
50:1…. “…from the rising of the sun….”
93:1…. “…the world also is stablished that it cannot be moved….”
104:19.. “…the sun knoweth his going down….”
104:22.. “…the sun ariseth….”
113:3…. “…from the rising of the sun….”
Ecclesiastes 1:5…. “…The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down
and hasteth to the place where he arose….”
Isaiah 13:10…. “…sun shall be darkened in his going….”
38:8…… “…is gone down on the sundial of Ahaz….”
38:8…… “…so the sun returned….”
41:25…. “…from the rising of the sun….”
45:6…… “…from the rising of the sun….”
59:19…. “…from the rising of the sun….”
60:20…. “…the sun shall no more go down….”
Jeremiah 15:9…. “…her sun is gone down while it was yet day….”
Daniel 6:14…. “…going down of the sun….”
Amos 8:9…. “…cause the sun to go down at noon….”
Jonah 4:8…. “…when the sun did arise….”
Micah 3:6…. “…and the sun shall go down….”
Nahum 3:17…. “…when the sun ariseth….”
Habakkuk 3:11…. “…the sun and moon stood still in their habitation….”
Malachi 1:11…. “…from the rising of the sun….”
Matthew 5:45…. “…for He maketh His sun to rise….”
13:6….. “…and when the sun was up….”
Mark 1:32…. “…when the sun did set….”
4:6…… “…when the sun was up….”
16:2…… “…at the rising of the sun….”
Luke 4:40…. “…when the sun was setting….”
Ephesians 4:26…. “…let not the sun go down upon your wrath….”
James 1:11…. “…for the sun is no sooner risen….”
That is a Total of 67 Verses from the Bible Which Say
that It Is the Sun that Moves and Not the Earth!
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# of Verses from the Bible Which Say
that It Is the Earth that Moves and Not the Sun:
0
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Will You…your Preacher…your Church Boldly
Stand With The Bible on this Creationist Teaching??
In the Biblical Creation there was, after all,
no sun for the earth to go around
until the fourth day!
(Genesis 1:14-19)
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www.fixedearth.com/ - 24k -
PEACE BE WITH YOU
MICKY

Wow. Talk about STUPID! I love how it says “In the Biblical Creation there was, after all, no sun for the earth to go around until the fourth day!”

Mostly, the Surgeon General of the United States is famous for those little warnings on cigarette packs. “Warning from the Surgeon General: Smoking increases the likelihood of lung cancer.” or some claptrap like that. This surgeon general, however, has more weighty issues on his mind.

Former Surgeon General Richard Carmona accused the the Bush administration of virtually muzzling him on topics that didn’t play well with the administrations agenda.

Carmona said Bush administration political appointees censored his speeches and kept him from talking out publicly about certain issues, including the science on embryonic stem cell research, contraceptives and his misgivings about the administration’s embrace of “abstinence-only” sex education.

Who is the Doctor? Who has more professional knowledge about these thing… the Surgeon General, or Dictator Bush?

Carmona said the administration prevented him from voicing views on stem cell research. Many scientists see it as a promising avenue for curing many diseases. But because it involves destroying human embryos, opponents call it immoral.

Carmona said he was prevented from talking publicly even about the science underpinning the research to enable the U.S. public to have a better understanding of a complicated issue. He said most of the public debate over the matter has been driven by political, ideological or theological motivations.

“I was blocked at every turn. I was told the decision had already been made — stand down, don’t talk about it,” he said.

Sound suspiciously evil? It is. And why doesn’t The Administration want the public to know about all of these potential cures for deadly diseases?

“Anything that doesn’t fit into the political appointees’ ideological, theological or political agenda is ignored, marginalized or simply buried,” Dr. Richard Carmona, who served as the nation’s top doctor from 2002 until 2006, told a House of Representatives committee.

“The problem with this approach is that in public health, as in a democracy, there is nothing worse than ignoring science, or marginalizing the voice of science for reasons driven by changing political winds. The job of surgeon general is to be the doctor of the nation, not the doctor of a political party.” Carmona added.

and here it is again.