Right-wing zealotry ahead. Proceed at your own risk.

Stream-of-consciousness crap ahead; very random and not well-proofed. It could have been much more eloquent, but I'm tired and crabby and rushed (oh my). You've been warned.

PAT ROBERTSON

It seems that whenever people want a reason to beat up on Christians, they go to the always-available Pat Robertson for a quote. His words invariably lessen his credibility as well as that of religious people everywhere. That's the theory, anyway, and it seems to work, at least to die-hard leftists eager to stamp out Christianity.

For instance, Pat Robertson recently admonished a community for voting out several school board members who wanted Intelligent Design taught alongside the theory of Evolution. Robertson dared suggest that if disaster befalls their community in the future, they need not ask God for help, because they in essence voted God out of their city.

Pretty crazy, huh?

Conversely, how many people know the following about Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam?

On October 24, 1989, at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Washington, DC., Louis Farrakhan stated that he had a vision of being abducted in 1985 by an invisible pilot in a UFO and carried up on a beam of light to a "human built planet" known as the "Mother Wheel." There the voice of Elijah Muhammad informed him that the president and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, under the direction of Gen. Colin Powell, were planning a war, which Farrakhan said he later came to realize was "a war against the black people of America, the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan." "I saw a city in the sky," Farrakhan said, after which the UFO "brought me back to Earth and dropped me off near Washington; over to Tyson Corners and Fifth Street I think...to make The Announcement."

I’ve yet to see Farrakhan featured on a Sunday morning talk show or a television news segment with an introduction that mentions the above. While Pat Robertson will always be known as “that wacko who threatened a city with Godly judgment,” Louis Farrakhan will forever get a pass on once claiming that he was abducted by aliens who told him of the U.S. government’s war on black people.

Honestly, I have no opinion on Pat Robertson one way or the other. Last time I checked he was entitled to his Second Amendment rights just like everyone else, and you're willing to believe Christianity or not, your choice. I just find it interesting that when Robertson makes a statement that (like it or not) is based soundly on the scriptures he proports to believe in he is labeled a crazy person. When Louis Farrakhan, a representative of the peaceful and dignified Islamic religion makes utterly delusional claims, nary a word is mentioned and he is continually held up as a representative of the black community.

INTELLIGENT DESIGN
This week the Twin Cities’ official left-wing rag Shitty Pages featured a cover story on a local scientist who is out to discredit Intelligent Design.

This is not going to be a blog about Intelligent Design vs. Evolution vs. Creationism, by the way.

What strikes me as odd is the fact that this is a textbook example of not seeing the forest for the trees. The scientist profiled makes a great argument against a literal interpretation of Creationism, Intelligent Design, and other faith-based theories of how life got to where it is. I've read countless books and articles making a sound, scientific argument against Creationism. Nice work, guys: religion is silly, you've made your point.

What is conspicuously absent, however, is any mention of where all the something that culminated in what we see around us came from. Apparently, it’s faith-based to believe that there is a Supernatural being out there who either created life from whole cloth or at least set Evolution into motion. However, it’s the pinnacle of scientific reasoning that any type or quantity of matter “could just happen.”

Faith-based indeed.

I had a spirited conversation with a co-worker about Evolution recently. If you want to see someone proselytize with the zeal of a street preacher, get an Evolutionist started. After he waxed rabid—excuse me, eloquent—for a full five minutes, I posited the question: Where did the matter that began it all come from?

He replied, to my amazement, by impatiently shaking his head and saying “That doesn’t matter.” Then he rambled on.

Excuse me, but where all this shit came from in the first place is the crux of the matter, in my opinion. Saying that you only care what happened after matter came to be, not where the matter actually came from, seems an affront to science. According to Evolutionists, their theory can be demonstrated in the fossil record. If they’re so convinced of that, shouldn’t they now turn their attentions to where everything originated? That would change the terms of the debate.

If all this something “just happened,” as scientifically impossible as that may seem, then science should be diligently seeking proof of it. However, if all this something was generated by a being beyond the scope of science, than that being should be the subject of research, not the subsequent results of his action of creating matter. It's one thing to put a puzzle together; it's quite another for the pieces to simply materialize out of thin air.

Yet it’s completely taken for granted that everything “just is,” and mankind in his infinite wisdom has it all figured out, or soon will. Again, religion is silly. An infinite Universe filled with incredibly complex matter, however...that, my friend, makes complete sense.

“That doesn’t matter.” My God, and Evolutionists call me a sheep.