Pre-Preface: This is my first “real” post, and I’m already annoyed I couldn’t think of a better title. I’m also annoyed that I was itching to write it 9 hours ago, and now I’m sleepy and won’t do that itch justice. BUT! I won’t ever use this thing unless I get used to it, so no more putting it off.

Preface: Most of this entry (and chances are, most entries to come) are very much based on the fuzzy picture and loose, sometimes second-hand, facts I’ve picked up here and there. If I make a huge error or misrepresentation, by all means, let me know.

Okay, so my friend Whitney asked me to come over to her place and help her write a paper. Every day I get asked out for coffee, a movie, or some other “fun” thing, and my reaction, at least these days, has been “I guess if I HAVE to”, and yet, as soon as she asked me, I said yes and was actually excited to help out. I think I need to get back into classes. I digress. So the assignment, simply put, was to choose a social problem and to weigh its pros and cons (from research, not opinion) and then give a personal opinion using a logical argument. She chose the problem of intelligent design taught in schools.

I thought I had a basic grasp of intelligent design. I understood it as: nature, science, and evolution have a harmony that suggest–imply, even, that there must have been an intelligent being which designed it. With this as my definition, my counterpoint has been that things work in harmony with each other in any system, or the system would cease to exist. Everything must overcome, adapt, or cease existence. If I roll over in my sleep and knock over my lamp, the lamp will fall over. It has no control over this, and since I was asleep, neither did I. There was not an intelligent force involved, [Read more →]

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This will be the third, maybe even the fourth attempt to start a blog on this site.  Every time I get started, I become frustrated at the lack of options a blog offers, the lack of skills I have a web design, and mostly the lack of organization in my head.   I want a website that mirrors, as best a website can, my trains of thought, my ways of sorting things, and, most ambitious of all, me at my most awesome.  So I ditch the blog idea, agree with myself that I CAN learn CSS and enough PHP to make my own website that perfectly captures what I’m going for, and delete the posts that are pretty similiar to this one.   And then I go about my life for awhile.  And while doing the life thing, I go on walks.  And on these walks I have tons of thoughts, ideas, theories, and rants, and I always think “If I had a blog, I would rush home and write all this crap down,and someone out there besides me will find this interesting.”  And then I vow that before the day is out, I will design my dream blog and start writing.  You probably see where this is going.  So tonight, I’ve decided that until I create this dream blog, I’m going to keep this one around.  Let’s see what happens…

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