MEMEHUNTER

Ex nihilo nihil fit.

So, thanks to Andy for lobbing this my way...

http://tinyurl.com/6w62

I've had a few run-ins with creationists myself. The Christian Union went all guns blazing for me during my MSc, I think because I was known to be an evolutionary type and also vaguely popular in my college. It's nuts. You can't get anywhere, really. Creationists do actually speak a different language, there's no common ground on which to hold a discourse. I mean, when you can actaully get them to cheerfully admit that reason has no part of their position... what can you do? When a particularly lengthy debate with one of the missionary types was winding down, I asked (out of curiosity really) how old he thought the Earth was. He said he didn't have a figure in his head, but "roughly 6400 years, at a guess".

Faced with that... what can you do?

Attempting to fix a website today. Got hoardes of tiny 16 yo girls heading to the lab site at the end of this month when a piece in a magazine comes out. Need to make it work, but someone made their images too big. Gah.

That financial crisis I mentioned a while ago should be sorted by the end of the week. Hoorah. The university has finally decided to release the money my industrial sponsor owes me. About time. What's the point of whoring out my intellect if I don't actually get the filthy, filthy money at the end of it? What's the point, eh?

Exactly.

"If the Eiffel Tower were now representing the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle-knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age, and anybody would percieve that skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno."

posted by Memehunter @ 1:29 PM