I have a midterm to be working on, and of course I don't want to do it, so I'm going to write on here about something completely pointless that happened a few days ago.

On the ride home from Biloxi I got into a religious debate with the guy sitting in front of me. First of all, let me clarify my beliefs. I'm not some Satan worshpping aetheist who listens to pagan music and slits my wrists and drinks my own blood and eats bats and whatnot. I don't even know how we got on the topic of religion, probably because I was on a volunteer trip and God was a strong undertone the entire time. Which is fine with me, God is cool and all, just as long as people don't try to convert me or anything. So this guy was probably the most ignorant person I've ever met in my life. The debate probably went on for about three hours, but the main point was that everything science had ever said about evolution was wrong and he was right and I had been misled my whole life. He told me that they just "made up" that whole spiel about humans coming from monkeys and that they had actually traced all human DNA to a single female. Bullshit they did. And if they did, how come no one knows about it? To this he answered, "Because they don't want you to know." Ok, so let me get this straight. All the scientific evidence that had been proven in the last, let's say 100 years is wrong, but no one knows that, plus they figured out we all came from the same mother, but no one knows that either, except for some kid living in South Carolina sitting in front of me on the bus? I don't think so. He spent the rest of the time trying to convince me that now scientists were finding evidence of intelligent design. That Darwin was wrong the whole time, and that there was no way life could have been a product of evolution. I have a few problems with this. First of all, what exactly constitutes intelligent design? Who's to say what is or what is not the work of a higher being? If we don't even know if there is a god, how can you set criteria and then conduct research off of something you don't even know exists? I didn't say this part, because I thought of it when I was lying in bed that night and I was kicking myself for not bringing it up. And anyway, how do you know that God didn't design us to be able to adapt, or to, dare I say, evolve? Why do evolution and God have to be completely different topics? If God was smart in the least, he would design things to be able to withstand change, not crumble and die the second a huge meteor hit the earth. Then this kid went on to say that he is part of the elect, which, when judgment day comes, will be the only ones who go to heaven. But you can't know you're part of the elect until you die, but he was certain he was one of the elect because he was living a holy life according to a Bible with a billion different translations which was written by man and which also originally written in Hebrew, or Arabic, or whatever it was written in. Fuck you. Just because you were brainwashed into believing that you're better than everyone and that everyone is a faithless sinner doesn't mean you should go around and try to convince people to believe in certain things. I absolutely hate, hate, HATE when people try and shove ideas down other people's throats. I can't flippin stand it. And it's not like he was just arguing a point. He kept telling me to come to some church meeting every Thursday or something so I could have my mind numbed even more and be taught to completely disregard every scientific discovery. It's not like I'm against the idea of religion, the idea of living a good life and all that, but when you start denying things that are staring you right in the face that's when you've taken it a little too far. This kid also says he doesn't agree with religion because he doesn't believe in following rules, yet somehow he is part of the Chosen People and he is also a Religious Studies major. Jesus.