Noah's Ark

Bible scientists have released information stating they have found the relics of what appears to be a large boat on top of a mountain in Iran. While there is not a lot of other information at this time, it is safe to say this discovery will open up debate on both sides of the religious world. Christian scientists want to try and identify the type of wood this air craft size heap of mystery is made of, and if successful, say they can prove the Noah story true, and thus prove God's existence. Here is the story.

Personally, I doubt this thing is a boat. Its just not reasonable. There is no evidence of a major flood ever happening and stories such as Noah taking God's advice to save all His creatures placed upon the earth are seen in many civilizations throughout the globe. Despite what Christians think, they are not original. Also, there is no way two of every animal could be found and loaded into an ark. Okay, maybe there was a few camels, monkeys, cobras, and birds but didn't they live in a desert? Where did all the other animals come from? How could you store enough food and fresh water to nourish all the creatures? It just sounds plain stupid.

But what if it wasn't. What if they dig into this heap of cinder and find the skeletons of koalas and American bison. I can picture one of those Christian scientists standing there, triumphantly holding the femur of a polar bear over his head, the look of "I TOLD you so" in his eyes. How could anyone argue evidence of a complete menagerie, unless you think they planted them to further there cause. It would change the way the world views religion because if one crazy sounding bible story was correct, why couldn't the rest be true too. Maybe the earth IS only 10,000 years old and God made it all and put every species of animal on the earth just as we see them today.

We listen to scientists, but who really understands all that stuff they throw at us? Maybe they are making it all up, giving fancy sounding names to a series of fake tests to make the rest of us seem dumb. I'm guilty of it too, but so many people allow science to spoon feed us information without questioning any validity. We read some article about science and just accept it as truth because to be honest, an answer we don't understand is still better than an answer we don't have. I say this because it is the same sin those who follow religion fall victim to. They have questions about life, deep questions, questions they probably struggled with for years only to realize they themselves could find no answers. This lead to, "Hey look, that guy in the robe sitting in the fancy looking church, he has a following of happy people signing joyous songs, maybe he has the answers to my questions." Doesn't that sound the same as "Hey look, that guy with the lab jacket on, sitting in the expensive looking office, he has a lot of books, books with math equations that exceeds my college calc classes. He has a following of post docs who are attempting to understand what he understands. He has written multiple research papers that only five people in the world can make sense of. He must be smart. He must have the answers to my questions."

So who do you listen to? Obviously no one can know everything, therefore we must listen to others to survive and flourish. I think we just need to be more judicial when reading about science and not pretend like we know what's going on, cause we don't. I don't understand the math of string theory, nor could I do advanced Mendelian calculations. I accept certain things like gravity and light without understand them at that gut level necessary to stop asking questions, and if I do that, why shouldn't I just blindly accept a hunk of decaying wood sitting on a mountain in the Middle East. At least I really understand the terms "boats", "wood", and "mountain".

Post about the Phillies

Evan, you want a post about our lowly Phillies, I shall give you a post about the worst thing ever. In the category of worst things, the group of "sports teams" is not even enough to properly describe the Phils, and the term "ever" describes the entire history of time starting at the big bang and includes every moment up to now. Things like World War II, disco, and that asteroid that killed all the dinosaurs would all fall behind the Phillies on this list or worsts. Not only do they suck, but they just seem like a bunch of stuck up brats who care about winning as much as I care about American Idol.

The Phillies are the reason the Ancient Egyptians invented the negative sign. This advanced civilization used their pyramids and the orbit of the earth around the sun to predict how stupid the Philadelphia Phillies would be, but at that time they had no way to express something less than zero. After much thinking, they came up with "-" negative so that they could say
The Phillies= -156,432,879 (Egyptians were really into math).

As Evan has said before, the reason this team is so great at pissing people off is because they get your hopes all up EVERY SINGLE YEAR only to end up sucking. And man do they suck. I don't watch a lot of other baseball, so I don't know if this is true, but it seems the job a bullpen is to finish the game and perserve a lead. The Phillies' bullpen blows every game. How is it a starting pitcher can give up, say, three hits in three innings, but a bullpen guy always surrenders like five in one inning. This always seems to happen.

As I said before, one of the many reason I'm starting to hate the Phillies is because they just seem like a bunch of jerks. Brett Myers beat his wife on a street corner. That sucks for his wife, but it sucks for me too cause now I have to listen to some bean eating Boston dude talk about how unclassy Philadelphians are in some retarded accent that sounds like he had a stroke seven years ago and now it has progressed to the point this dude only has four brain cells left, none of those controlling his speech. Hey Bret...we know you are "an angry man" by the way you stomp around the mound with those "angry eyes" everytime you screw up...we know, we get it, you are an old boxer and you are mean and tough. Good for you dude, now trying acting like a civilized ape, cause I doubt you'll ever reach the human level.

I saw Pat Burrell standing on a street corner in Philadelphia about one month ago. He was just standing there looking like he thought he was important so I walked past him, turned around, and kicked him in the back of his calf. I said, "Take that Pat Burrell, that kick to the calf is for your continued and relentless sucking, I hate you."

Is Dave Bell really a professional baseball player? I mean, could it be possible he once saw Mike Schmidt kill someone and promised not to say anything if they let him play third base? I bet he was a plumber who won some sort of contest and now tortures the rest of us by watching him bat. Anyway, he is the worst. He makes me want to stick a ball point pen through my retina.

mike lieberthal, ahhh, mike lieberthal. you are not even worth the extra effort it takes me to hold down the shift key to capitalize your name, you are not even a proper noun. For real, is this the best catcher they can find? I don't understand, I don't see how a team can continue to keep players after continued suckiness. The Eagle would not do that, The Eagle would boot your ass in that situation. Then Brian Dawkins would rip your pancreas out from behind your ribs, rip it in half, throw it on the ground only to end with the double bicep flex. He would then proceed to tell us how Jesus loves us, then Jesus and Brian would do super bicep flexes to intimadate all us sinners. Man, he is bad ass. Sooooo, on to the Birds.

Say it with me now E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES!!!

Got a new job

I started working Tuesday and Thursday mornings for another chiropractic office up in Hamilton Township. My original goal was to spend those days doing paper work and finishing up any unfinished jobs that I could not get done during my busy office hours. Yeah, that was the plan, but I'm not that busy, so I was doing nothing then complaining about it, which is the worst thing a person can do...nothing, then complain about it.

The new job is cool, at least its busy. A good week for me in my office would be about 25 visits for the entire week. This morning, between 8 and 1, I saw 38. It's a mill, but they do a lot of rehab stuff, which I love, and people seem to get better. A typical patient gets about 15 minutes of electric stim with a hot pack, then gets adjusted and sent out to the gym part to do their exercises. If nothing else good comes from this situation, I am learning how little one can do and get away with it.

Sooooooo, thats what I'm doing.