Evolution

In follow up to my post detailing my beliefs surrounding evolution, here's a site I ran across where the host describes himself as a "a macro evolution agnostic".

I used to accept evolutionary theory. Then I looked at the evidence. It became clear to me that macroevolutionary theory is built more on a priori philosophical assumptions than on evidence. Microevolution, on the other hand, is supported by the evidence. The distinction between the two is critical and is largely ignored, or not understood, by the mainstream media and general public.

This is the thing that really disturbs me about the teaching of evolution theory. When I was taught evolution in 10th grade biology, no distinction was made between macro and micro evolution. The teaching of evolution as some type of scientific law became the cornerstone of my agnostic beliefs which is why I now believe there is almost a conspiratorial attempt to indoctrinate our youth into the "state beliefs".

As we have entered all this farce known as global warming, it reminds me of so many other things I was taught in school that turned out to be a bunch of caca.

In the mid 1970's, we were taught the metric system because "you won't be able to buy milk and gasoline by the gallon ten years from now". The beginnings of the Earth day movement because we were going to "run of oil in the next 30 - 60 years".

I remember a term paper I did in high school where I wrote that "the earth could only generate the resources to support 6 billion people". Most of my research came from reading some school crap about overpopulation being the ruination of the world.

Even dietary issues are taught, I believe, to reduce the public's consumption of meat and dairy, Have you seen that food pyramid? Eat that and you'll weigh 300 before you graduate, It's totally loaded with carbs from grains. Compare that to 4-4-3-2 which I was taught as a kid.

Since then there has been asbestos, DDT, acid rain, alar, red dye #5, silicone breast implants, mad cow, avian flu, Y2K, all of which have proven to be far less a threat to human life and the environment than originally believed. In fact, the elimination of some of these things through public policy based on hysteria instead of scientific fact has resulted in deteriorating standards of living for the world's poor.

I bet some African with Malaria sure wishes we never outlawed DDT.

So yes, old Gordon is skeptical about Global warming and anything else that comes out of the mouths of lefties. Too many times, it looks like an attempt to scare the public into adhering to some socialist policy.

Now excuse me while I drive down to the local pub in my SUV, have a beer, some nachos covered in trans fat for an appetizer, big ole steak, followed by a couple of cigarettes.