Yes, I have officially converted from agnostic to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Those who are unfamiliar with this religious group can look up additional information from their site.
In terms of why I've converted, I felt that this is the most rational set of beliefs and they also address several of my concerns about the direction in which society is headed. For instance, take note of their open letter to the Kansas school board.
Anyway, I just thought an official announcement of my conversion was necessary.
In other news, the past few weeks I've been struggling to teach the idea of natural selection and genetics. So in class I brought to the classroom a discussion I had with my roomies about how Earth lacks a predator for humans. So I discussed with my students if you could create a living organism that had the sole purpose of eating and killing humans, what would it look like and how would it kill people?
I was going along the lines of monstrous owls that carry people away to be eaten. They'd only be active at night so curfews would have to be in effect. And since people are too stupid not to work night shifts or go outside for whatever reason at night, there'll always be some poor sap to be eaten. Or to bring back raptors that are only active during school hours and only eat kids in their adolescence so it'll prevent students from cutting school or coming in late, there'd be plenty of food for them in that department as well.
Well, one can dream, right?
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Sunday, March 16, 2008
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