Ultimate Gambit

It’s been in the news a fair bit recently, with people wanting to teach intelligent design to school kids as part of science lessons. This really angers me, so when I came across this, I thought it was time I wrote something about it.

For me, while evolution is just a theory, its one of the most obviously true theories in science today. The sheer amount of evidence available should far outweigh any doubts that people have. However, some blind people still seem to believe in Intelligent Design. It’s generally these same people who so fundamentally believe in many religious doctrines which have absolutely no evidence to support them, and lead to crazy people like this.

Anyway, in my opionion Evolution is as close to scientific fact as you can get. As I have said before, everybody is entitled to their opinion, and I am not going to try and change the opinions of people who believe in ID, but seriously, it does make me worry about the world when something so glaringly obvious (evolution) gets overlooked by people in favor of something that has absolutely no scientific basis or any hint of proof about it (ID).

As for teaching it in science classes, what an absolute pile of crap. R.E. classes maybe, although, personally I think teaching something so clearly wrong is a waste of time, full stop.
Anyway, back to the orignial thing that prompted me to post this, in perusing the web today, I came across a pretty convincing arguement for evolution on Google Groups. I’ve posted it below for completion, and it continues after the break…

“I was recently fortunate enough to witness a high school biology
teacher get hit by a question about Evolution…

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According to TV Squad, Futurama is returning!

The moment every fan has been waiting for (apart from those who bought the ‘complete’ dvd boxset) is here! Futurama IS returning to TV!

I’ve loved Futurama since it was first released – in my opinion, its even better than the Simpsons. The gentle (and not so gentle) dig’s at popular Sci-Fi culture, along with typical Matt Groening humour and artwork was just too good to miss, and after seeing every episode available, I like many fans, long for more!

Well now we have to long no longer (quite a lot of longs there)…

Actually, we do. We have to wait until 2008. But then we’ll be getting at least 13 new episodes! Huzzah!
Oh, and FOX, “Bite My Shiny Metal Ass”…

So, i just wrote a great post about Duke Nukem Forever, told it to publish, and realised my new firewall was blocking me being able to post… grr

So, rather than write it all out again, here is a great list of all the stuff that could have happened in the time they have so far taken to get Duke Nukem Forever finished. Enjoy!

I’m going to go into rant mode now…

I bought an item on ebay a while ago. It was a model delorean car from BTTF, (from seller retrotoys2004), and was described as being in good condition. I got it for a good price, but i was a bit miffed when it arrived and had a number of problems with it.

It was no longer screwed to the base, a wingmirror was broken off and had clearly tried to be fixed a few times because of glue marks, a windscreen wiper was missing, one of the wheels didnt raise properly with all the others, and a number of the fins on the back were snapped.

So, i e-mailed him to ask for a refund. The seller offered me one, but said i’d have to pay postage. Since the postage was going to cost me almost as much as the item, i decided not to bother.

So i left him Neutral feedback, since the item was not what he described, but he did offer me a refund in line with ebay’s T&C’s.

Then he leaves me a Negative feedback (my first) saying I was bad for eBay.

This really PI***S me off… I paid well, he got exactly what he should have off me, I DID NOTHING WRONG. He on the other hand falsely advertised, and in reality should have got negative feedback. The only reason i didnt was because of fear of getting a negative.

This is not how feedback should work. It SUCKS.

Now, in my opinion, neither buyer or seller should be able to see the feedback left for them until after they have left their feedback, that way the whole system is fair.

Am I wrong in being pi**ed off!? Does anyone else have a problem with the eBay feedback system? The whole system is open to manipulation and vindictiveness.

RANT OVER