After reading the epic blog battle between evolution and Intelligent Design (the capitals letters are intentional), I noticed that the I.D. fanatics have started getting a little facitious. They constantly keep bringing up how evolution is "only a theory" as though there were something metaphysical about theories. I also keep seeing that there are those that seem to think that evolution defines a continuous process starting at the big bang.

I've determined that those folks are stupid. I used to think that they were just ignorant. They just didn't know. But now I see that THEY DON'T WANT TO KNOW. They want to just keep screaming at the sky demanding proof proof proof.

Well, the proof is out there. They just don't want to see it. I don't see anywhere in any of it that de facto claims that a Supreme Being (Brahma, Zeus, Odin, or the Great Three: Allah, Yahweh, and God who all seem to be the same Intelligent Designer) does not exist.

I prefer to follow the facts. There are chemical reactions. One happens in your nose everytime a protein particle stumbles across a receptor neuron. For some people, some protein particles generate a histamine response. A "theory" might suggest that sometime in our (as in humanity's) past running across a critter that generated such protein particles might not be in our (again, all of humanity's) progenerative interests to hang out where those critters hung out. By avoiding those areas, and consequently those critters, our ancestors were able to survive, and procreate, that much better.

Those of you unable to grasp this concept may continue to praise the Great I.D. for your willing ignorance.

As for how an allergy to cats stems directly from the big bang, that's a much bigger concept. Those that suscribe to that line of thought believe that chemical reactions are all that there are. Me writing an argument here on this website can, with the right parameters defined, be predicted just as can be the reaction between hydrogen peroxide and baking soda.

For most scientists, this is a little hard to accept. Too many variables to even begin a proper experiment. So let the future investigate that one.

For now, I find the the concept of believing that all existence stems from a single (or pantheon, what's the difference?) I.D. preposterous. All there is to suggest such a Thing might exist is a feeling. Some people feel small, so there must be something bigger. Some people feel powerless, so there must be something powerful. Some people feel ignorant, so there must be something that knows. Some people feel they aren't as good as they could be, so there must be something out there that is all-good.

Does this mean there is no I.D.? @#$%!@#% and all the cartoon curses I can think of NO! That we can think of it at all means we have produced one whopper of a hypothesis. It's one that can only be studied through a form of experimentation that even Albert Einstein favored above all others. Thought experimentation.

Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, Descarte, Bacon, St. Aquinas, Hobbes, Hegel, Kierkeguaard, Nietzsche, Calvin... all were philosophers first and teachers, politicians, moral advisors, church leaders and scientists second. This is why the highest form of education awarded is that of "Doctor of Philosophy".

Any and all thought given to evolution as a concept, a theory, a truth, an evil... is a mark of its authenticity.

All I can really say to affirm my predilictions to evolution over religious creationsim is that no wars have been fought, no holocausts committed, no conquests begun, no cultures murdered in the name of science. Hate begins as a statement defining the differences in "us" and "them". In science, we can all be individuals and a part of the entire human race at the same time.

I refuse to worship anyone or Anything for nothing deserves such devotion of me. That I exist is a simple enough fact. That some imagninary friend in the sky decided I was special enough to do so would only be a statement of my own self worth.

Those who believe only in absolutes are pathetically shallow and narrow minded. They are incapable comprehending anything but that which is pushed upon them by over bearing greedy individuals that carry only their own political agendas.

And now I have fired my own salvo.