There is a lot of things about me. If you are my friend you would know much of that by now.
If you're not my friend then you know not much at all about me. Why don't we leave it at that?
You know, I always used to wonder why chicken had scaly feet. I knew that chickens were birds but that didn't explain it. My parents kept chickens for a while and so I took to examining chicken feet, with or without the rest of the body. The only animals I knew that had scales were fish and lizards.
Well, as it turns out, the current consensus is that birds are directly descended from dinosaurs. The evidence is in the skeletal structure of birds and the class of dinosaurs called "theropods." Theropods include such luminaries as Velociraptor, Tyrannosaurus Rex, and Allosaurus. What can you say, the notion that species are immutable is laughable at best.
Simply put, chickens are descended from dinosaurs. Deal with it!
The human eye is funny. The light sensitive cells along the retina are facing opposite the light entering the pupil This forces blood vessels and nerves to form a network above the light-sensitive cells. Where these networks converge to exit the eye we get "blind spots." The blind spots aren't to much trouble since the information from one eye fills in detail somehow in the other eye (a trick of the brain). I tell you, if somehow there was a designer for that eye then that designer should be mocked and scorned for doing a job even Homer Simpson could have managed.
I should add, I am near-sighted and have astigmatism in one eye. There is an argument that the eye is a "perfect" organ and that if one part of it didn't work then the entire thing would be useless. Obviously, the person and persons who said this never had to wear glasses to correct an imperfect eye. Also, said persons never had to deal with color-blindness (of which I do not have). Both imperfections show that the eye doesn't have to be perfect to work. Therefore, the argument is void and the eye can work even with a lens that's out of focus, an eyeball that's the wrong shape, and with some light-sensitive cells missing. In fact, it's fair to say that the eye is so imperfectly designed that there was no intelligence in its making.
I like having an intellect. In fact, I put much time, effort, and will to grow my intellect. I learned much, much more when I realized that I, in fact, didn't know it all. I still don't know it all. But I know more than plenty of other people. No, if that kind of intellectualism smacks of "elitism," then you retain the right to f*ck off. 'Cause really, anti-intellectualism is so damned "retarded." Yes, if you have a problem with intellectual then you in fact are "retarded" because you'd rather live in a world no larger than when you had the mind-set of a child.
And anti-intellectualism gave us bone-headed politicians from the entire spectrum of politics. We have had, and still have Democrats just as a dumbf*ck as Republicans. That anti-intellectualism also has made us so backwards as a society that we ignore genocide in Darfur but wonder why a presidential candidate didn't wear a flag pin on his lapel. Now that was a f*cktard moment if I ever saw one.
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