Wounds of Religionism:
Danial Dennet writes a great piece in his NY times editorial prescribing to the ridiculism faced by evolutionists and darwinists in direct conflict with creationists and upholders of the idea of "intelligent design".
Here's a excerpt:

Is "intelligent design" a legitimate school of scientific thought? Is there something to it, or have these people been taken in by one of the most ingenious hoaxes in the history of science? Wouldn't such a hoax be impossible? No. Here's how it has been done.

First, imagine how easy it would be for a determined band of naysayers to shake the world's confidence in quantum physics - how weird it is! - or Einsteinian relativity. In spite of a century of instruction and popularization by physicists, few people ever really get their heads around the concepts involved. Most people eventually cobble together a justification for accepting the assurances of the experts: "Well, they pretty much agree with one another, and they claim that it is their understanding of these strange topics that allows them to harness atomic energy, and to make transistors and lasers, which certainly do work..."

Fortunately for physicists, there is no powerful motivation for such a band of mischief-makers to form. They don't have to spend much time persuading people that quantum physics and Einsteinian relativity really have been established beyond all reasonable doubt.

With evolution, however, it is different. The fundamental scientific idea of evolution by natural selection is not just mind-boggling; natural selection, by executing God's traditional task of designing and creating all creatures great and small, also seems to deny one of the best reasons we have for believing in God. So there is plenty of motivation for resisting the assurances of the biologists. Nobody is immune to wishful thinking. It takes scientific discipline to protect ourselves from our own credulity, but we've also found ingenious ways to fool ourselves and others. Some of the methods used to exploit these urges are easy to analyze; others take a little more unpacking.

A creationist pamphlet sent to me some years ago had an amusing page in it, purporting to be part of a simple questionnaire:

Test Two

Do you know of any building that didn't have a builder? [YES] [NO]

Do you know of any painting that didn't have a painter? [YES] [NO]

Do you know of any car that didn't have a maker? [YES] [NO]

If you answered YES for any of the above, give details:

Take that, you Darwinians! The presumed embarrassment of the test-taker when faced with this task perfectly expresses the incredulity many people feel when they confront Darwin's great idea. It seems obvious, doesn't it, that there couldn't be any designs without designers, any such creations without a creator.

Well, yes - until you look at what contemporary biology has demonstrated beyond all reasonable doubt: that natural selection - the process in which reproducing entities must compete for finite resources and thereby engage in a tournament of blind trial and error from which improvements automatically emerge - has the power to generate breathtakingly ingenious designs.

"the Realm of The Gods .."

From Thomas L.Friedman's

A Poverty of Dignity and a Wealth of Rage

NewYork Times, July 15, 2005

Also at work is Islam's struggle with modernity. Islam has a long tradition of tolerating other religions, but only on the basis of the supremacy of Islam, not equality with Islam. Islam's self-identity is that it is the authentic and ideal expression of monotheism. Muslims are raised with the view that Islam is God 3.0, Christianity is God 2.0, Judaism is God 1.0, and Hinduism is God 0.0.

Part of what seems to be going on with these young Muslim males is that they are, on the one hand, tempted by Western society, and ashamed of being tempted. On the other hand, they are humiliated by Western society because while Sunni Islamic civilization is supposed to be superior, its decision to ban the reform and reinterpretation of Islam since the 12th century has choked the spirit of innovation out of Muslim lands, and left the Islamic world less powerful, less economically developed, less technically advanced than God 2.0, 1.0 and 0.0.

"Some of these young Muslim men are tempted by a civilization they consider morally inferior, and they are humiliated by the fact that, while having been taught their faith is supreme, other civilizations seem to be doing much better," said Raymond Stock, the Cairo-based biographer and translator of Naguib Mahfouz. "When the inner conflict becomes too great, some are turned by recruiters to seek the sick prestige of 'martyrdom' by fighting the allegedly unjust occupation of Muslim lands and the 'decadence' in our own."

This is not about the poverty of money. This is about the poverty of dignity and the rage it can trigger.

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Xa|man

PREAMBLE

..testing.. testing...hello 1..2..3.. hello 1..2..3 ... is thing on...

(8) zunnnnnnn nnnnnn (8)

...and the sound system shrieks in affirmation....

sanity prevails (witholding its silence).... and the scion of saladin, to the joy of the opppressed, begins:

thought de uno :
Love (or lack thereoff... ) creates randomness....randomness depicting a twisted, fuzyy pattern.....the look of which jolts from within...it encourages inebriation of the soul...intoxication of sanity...restlessnes..... . But ponder if you will and you will become an aficionado of this inconspicuous resltlessness that breeds in and feeds the soul at the same time... It is but a paradox that such thoought exists not at the dispense of love..but at the mere desire of it..

thought de dos:
wit! banter! all these words conspired with Vanity, the Royal Sin....make way to the heart of the incomplacent soul....

thought de tres:
as euphmistic as it may sound..spiritualness is a sham! , a failing act of the retarded.... the footsteps of pragmaticism are etchedon the moon and spirit worship has only but given way to more denail..



thought de quatro ( finale') :
Moi created this excuse-of-a-thing-called-blog sounds swedish to redirect this impetuous surge to unleash this argumentative bitch living somehere inside of me... (oR probably its an excuse for something more bizzare and lacklustre also nurturing itself within me)