Monkeys are kind of cute, guys.

I'm torn. I can't decide whether to rant about the importance of squashing ignorance in it's path or rambling about the importance of dreams. Doing both would overwhelm you, I am sure.

I choose ignorance.

This semester I am enrolled in a CI 2800 course, which is basically Teachers and Schools (and all that bullshit). This class is split into two parts. We are in a lecture setting three days a week, and we mentor at local schools two days a week. During our lectures, I'd like to say we have heart felt teacher centric conversations which reaffirm all our aspirations to shape young minds, but we do not. Yeah, it makes me sad too.

These lectures usually involve us watching movies, that only quazi fit into what the professor actually wants to talk about.

We just finished a movie entitled: The Genius of Apes. It basically tried to figure out why humans are highly evolved, educated creatures, while our nearest living relative is a few steps behind us. That's cool. I think monkeys are kind of cute.

Of course our professor has to bring up the question of teaching Creationism and Evolution in schools, which is also a valid question. (Side note: I love Inherit the Wind, it is a hella cool movie)

We do most of our conversation with the professor through emails, so no one really knows what every one is saying.

It got to a point where he had to send an email to everyone saying,he didn't much care if we thought evolution was a crack pot theory, he just wanted to know if it should be taught. That email made me throw-up in my mouth a little.

Now, I don't care what your personal religious belief are, but if your head is so far up your ass that you think Adam and Eve were real people, I don't think you should be in a college at all.

Even the majority of theologians have decided that yes, humans did evolve from a species closely related to our ape friends, but it was all intelligent design (or some bullshit like that).

If you can't tell, I'm a bit of an atheist.

I took a Hebrew literature course where we studied the Old Testament (and I did pretty well in it too. I'm shocked too). Most scholars believe that the majority of Genesis is basically explaining God's will, it's not a freakin historical account. My teacher was a Baptist minister too.

Last year, I passed a man on campus spouting out anti-evolution sentiments, and one of his arguments was "don't believe everything you read." The first thing I thought after hearing that was: 'you mean like the Bible.'

Now go ahead and stone me. I don't care. I respect the fact that you believe in something. Actually, I envy it just a little bit, but please try not to spew your nonsense on me. I'm really not it the mood to crush your entire belief system, but I might feel obligated to do so, if you get a religion stain on my new shirt.