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A last minute surge, from 3:30 to 5:00, while access to the Internet rescued this day from being a complete loss and brought my approvals list down to 19 items. Obviously, not being able to get on the 'net is good for me.
My back's all screwed up though, muscles tense and achey and I've been falling asleep in front of my computer all day. Did manage to remember to get lunch, however, which makes this a red-letter day! It will be the first time in two or three weeks that I've eaten all three of the main meals of the day.
Meanwhile, I still haven't heard back from the University of Edinburgh about the req's for their MSc program in Creative Writing but I'm 750 words towards something for my portfolio, which is 750 words closer than I was last week this time.
What do you know? Psychiatry works.
Spent an icky 15 minutes this morning surfing the electronic break along the edges of the Catholic Intelligent Design lunatic fringe. Here's what I don't get - the concept of God is so huge, as is the question of human evolution. Why must it be either or? There's a long history of precendents throughout orthodox theology and metaphysics that argues that God works through the material world, in accordance with the laws of nature, which would, per force, include those governing evolution. Natural selection, for example. The Intelligent Design freaks (I call'em as I see'em) are chortling over His Holiness, Benedict XVI's statement that God wills every 'man' into existence and we are not the products of a random chaotic system. See? they trumpet, the Catholic Church doesn't believe in Darwinism either! Then again, the Catholic Church, as an institution, still believes that women who are abused by their husbands should offer it up to God and suffer in silence - you'll pardon me if I don't find what the Catholic Church does or does not believe as an institution a persuasive argument. But why must we choose? There is nothing inherently contradictory between the idea of a theistic universe and natural selection. Why must people of faith insist on using ignorance to bulwark their faith against the big questions of a scary world? Moreover, why must they take pride in their rejection of reason - particularly when the great body of Western philosophy and foundations of Catholic dogma itself is based on examining faith through the lense of a questioning, reasoning mind? Read your fucking Aquinas, people!
Either you have faith, in which case there is no question that an eternal, omniscient, omnipotent and infinite being is capable of creating the cosmos in the foreknowledge of how the building blocks of humanity would ping-pong through the ages to result in man or you don't. And if you believe, then why fear the knowledge of how the natural world works? Why fear to use the brain God gave you? If your faith is so weak that it can't withstand a reasoned investigation of the natural world, then I pity you.
Faith in God can't be proved and it can't be disproved - that's why it's called Faith, fuckheads.
And you biblical literalists - you can fuck right off, too. Asshats
My back's all screwed up though, muscles tense and achey and I've been falling asleep in front of my computer all day. Did manage to remember to get lunch, however, which makes this a red-letter day! It will be the first time in two or three weeks that I've eaten all three of the main meals of the day.
Meanwhile, I still haven't heard back from the University of Edinburgh about the req's for their MSc program in Creative Writing but I'm 750 words towards something for my portfolio, which is 750 words closer than I was last week this time.
What do you know? Psychiatry works.
Spent an icky 15 minutes this morning surfing the electronic break along the edges of the Catholic Intelligent Design lunatic fringe. Here's what I don't get - the concept of God is so huge, as is the question of human evolution. Why must it be either or? There's a long history of precendents throughout orthodox theology and metaphysics that argues that God works through the material world, in accordance with the laws of nature, which would, per force, include those governing evolution. Natural selection, for example. The Intelligent Design freaks (I call'em as I see'em) are chortling over His Holiness, Benedict XVI's statement that God wills every 'man' into existence and we are not the products of a random chaotic system. See? they trumpet, the Catholic Church doesn't believe in Darwinism either! Then again, the Catholic Church, as an institution, still believes that women who are abused by their husbands should offer it up to God and suffer in silence - you'll pardon me if I don't find what the Catholic Church does or does not believe as an institution a persuasive argument. But why must we choose? There is nothing inherently contradictory between the idea of a theistic universe and natural selection. Why must people of faith insist on using ignorance to bulwark their faith against the big questions of a scary world? Moreover, why must they take pride in their rejection of reason - particularly when the great body of Western philosophy and foundations of Catholic dogma itself is based on examining faith through the lense of a questioning, reasoning mind? Read your fucking Aquinas, people!
Either you have faith, in which case there is no question that an eternal, omniscient, omnipotent and infinite being is capable of creating the cosmos in the foreknowledge of how the building blocks of humanity would ping-pong through the ages to result in man or you don't. And if you believe, then why fear the knowledge of how the natural world works? Why fear to use the brain God gave you? If your faith is so weak that it can't withstand a reasoned investigation of the natural world, then I pity you.
Faith in God can't be proved and it can't be disproved - that's why it's called Faith, fuckheads.
And you biblical literalists - you can fuck right off, too. Asshats