Christmas blogging?

We'll see. Tomorrow I'm going to pray to the traffic gods that I can get through Phoenix without too much trouble. And for I-17 to not have any problems. My dilemma is that if I decide to detour through Wickenburg, I have to committ before reaching Casa Grande, and by the time I realize that Phoenix is not the way to go, I could have wasted an hour trying to get back to my detour route. Here's hoping KTAR will keep the traffic situtations current.

*whine* (read past this if you want)

I don't want to have to go to work tomorrow AM. I will, and hopefully it won't be too bad. I'll prepare as much as I can today.

/*whine*

My best friend that I'll be trying to get to supposedly has wireless internet setup at home so she can do work from home. So I'll bring the laptop, and hope that it works. She hasn't mentioned it since she asked for my recommendation for a wireless router and card. Then again, it's not the sort of thing she'd brag about.

My Mom, however, did tell me that hers is up and running. So if I don't post on Christmas itself, I can once I get to Fountain Hills.

Which reminds me, I have to break the news to my mom that boyfriend won't be coming with me to celebrate her birthday. I can go back through chat logs, and find the time when he told me that he'd come with me to celebrate her birthday. But it was a while ago, and he didn't tell me that plans changed and he has to go back to work now (until I brought it up again last night).

I know that guys don't immediately think to tell their significant other of such a change in plans. But it annoyed me, and it still upsets me some. My immediate family are important to me, and I spend more time with him and his dad than he does with me and my folks.

Bitch slap the intelligent design folks

Anyway, that was the first thought that popped into my head when I read that the Dover board of education rule was struck down. I personally like the image of bitch slapping morons that say an "intelligent creator" could only come up with such complex systems.

So those such a statement imply that we're not intelligent because we can't create such beings?

If you ever watched the History Channels production of "Ape to Man", I highly recommend that you do sometime. It aired again last week, so it'll be on again (eventually). Not only did it go back in the chronological history of fossil discoveries all the way to "Lucy", but it showed that there were different species of early humans co-existing at the same time and same place. That is, until one won out over the other.

I will admit that higher mammals are complex beings. All the biochemical processes that must go on in order for a simple act such as digestion is fascinating. However, I do believe that it took millions (perhaps tens of millions) of years to get to this stage.

For example, it was suggested to me that since the mitochrondria in eukaryotic cells could have come from a symbiotic relationship between a cell and a proto-cell (the mitochrondria) where the cell would engulf it to offer protection, and the mitochrondria has a simple role to convert ATP to energy which the cell can use. Eventually, the DNA to make mitochrondria integrated into the cells genomic DNA.

Is it true? I don't know. I think one of the most important things is to never stop looking for answers. The day we figure out everything in our world will be a sad and boring day.

I suppose that's really my biggest argument for intelligent design. It doesn't offer ways to prove wether or not it's correct. We're just supposed to buy our heads in the sand and say "we can't figure it out - God made it." Go back to the middle ages after I bitch slap you.

I suppose the sweetest bit of the story is that a REPUBLICAN judge appointed by BUSH said that it's endorsing religion and not science.