Watch out for 'life in your peanut butter'

There's a Museum opening in Cincinnati, of all places, that's dedicated to the notion that the world is almost 6,000 years old and created by god.

More of them will pop up all over the US and push creationism onto young people. Less you think this is political, this is relevant because Autumn happens to be young people.

And here's the thing: I'll listen to people of faith tell me that the world is 6,000 years old that Noah gathered baby dinosaurs and collected all 350,000 sets of beetles, the ants, and all the rest and made a huge ark. It's really not a problem that this is their faith. Unless you get to wonder what their point is?

That is, they want religion taught in school.

And they don't want it taught in classes on religion or philosophy, they want it taught in science class. Science is, at its core, a study in being skeptical. It's meant to make you wonder about the world, and ask questions. Science is about looking at the sky or looking in the dirt for one of the 350,000 kinds of beetles.

Creationists take this wonderful trait in science and exploit it: We should be skeptical, they say, and include as many 'theories' as possible. that's their argument to include creationism in science. Even President Bush said he's open to different theories of evolution.

But he's not. The people who are pushing Creationism aren't open to different theories, they are open to their one theory. And that's dangerous.

My own personal belief system goes like this: don't believe everything you believe. That means be open to things. Be open to new ideas. New possibilities. Religion and faith might be great, I saw check them out. Look up Janism. Read the bible. Check out Buddism. But you'll notice that most of the major religions aren't that open to different interpretations. Indeed, Jewish people have a different 10 commandments to Catholics. Both agree the same guy, Moses brought them down the mountain, they just maintain they were different. And the other guy is wrong.

Religion doesn't ask you to ask questions, it asks that one only has faith in its answers. God did it. End of story. Imagine if we all believed 100% in God's will and the creation museum was the science museum. Disease would be God's will, so there would be no incentive to coming up with cures.

Does that sound like a stretch? Perhaps. But on the creationism side, this is what they are saying. A jar of peanut butter disproves evolution.



To me, this is evidence of how dumb we just might be getting. The theory of evolution says nothing about the origin of life. It's called the origin of species, and it explains why there are billions of different life-forms on the planet. And while there are theories about the actual origin of life, mocking them with peanut butter is quite possibly insane.