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How Earth Resembles a Gooey Confection
Ant contributes a link spotted on Neatorama that may upset middle school Earth Science teachers, writing "LiveScience says Earth's simple schematic is not core, mantle, and crust anymore. It is more like the gooey center of a chocolate morsel harboring peanut butter and honey. Inner Earth is far more nuanced than outward appearances would suggest. A new model is proposed in the May 2, 2008, issue of the journal Science."
OMFG! This is the consequence of the Bush presidency. Unless we elect Al Gore in 2008, the Earth will continue to rot, from the core, outwards, until we're all burnt to a crisp! Or possibly frozen to death. Here's the crux of the argument: If you vote for Obama, you're a disgusting misogynist who supports date rape. And if you vote for Hillary, then you obviously support slavery of black people.
The only clear choice is Al Gore. If you don't, the world will end, eventually, at some point in the possibly near or also perhaps distant future from either getting too hot, or getting too cold.
My point is, Bush did this. Somehow. I just feel it in my emotions so hard that it has to be true. Which means I'm right. Elect NOT BUSH in 2008 or I will have a poor opinion of you. I know that Bush isn't even running for president in 2008, but a vote for anyone who's not a Democrat is effectively a vote for Bush, which is essentially a vote for death and murder.
So, if you love death and murder, but you hate children, black people, and women, then go ahead and vote non-Democrat. Go ahead. Do it.
There are so many totally important issues involved, and even though I really don't know what they are, nor do I understand them, I totally know inside my heart and my emotions that, no matter what these so-called issues are, that Bush is on the wrong side of them.
So, ignore that pesky "reason" and just do what I say based on my feelings. Because feelings are more true than facts, since I have more feelings than facts that I understand, and if something is more than something else, than it's better. That's totally a math thing, so it's true.
OMG! Democrats in 2008! Because I feel it so!
(Yes, that's what you all sound like.)
(*vomits*)
It would very much annoy varous anti-intellectual cults if they cared that Gregor Mendel was a quite pious Priest and Augustinian Monk. They like to simplify it all to some joke about Darwin and a monkey but our understanding of evolution owes quite a lot to Gregor Mendel. I suppose the cults can write it all off as evil Catholcism and the evil idea of having an educated clergy - or I suppose evil education in general of which evolution is the soft target.
The "perfect theory" on the other hand is the complete lazy copout of "intelligent design" which can be summed up as "this is all too hard to try to understand - let's just say the God ate my homework". It is perfect because it does not have to do anything so cannot fail - but is really entirely pointless in my opinion. What various anti-intellectuals do not understand is that Theology is about one set of things and Science is about something else. To make things even confusing the area where people driven by religeon fight with people who work with science is often just politics. Religeos groups wanting more control over schools get to take the time from teaching science and use it for Sunday School lessons instead or some odd parody of science like "Intelligent Design". There's a long way between the creepy cults that won't even let their members use a telephone or who argue that the cross is a symbol of Satan and those that are more mainstream but see political advantage in "Intellegent Design" - but I still see it as disturbing anti-intellectualism.