Christians in the Workplace

So I just learned a little bit about Sandia National Labratories. You know, those are the people that like playing with enriched uranium isotopes and plutonium and other elements high on the periodic table.

Did you know that they had a paper called the Sandia Daily News? Did you know that there was a group on site called "Christians in the Workplace?" Did you know that they just had a lecture on Intellegent Design?

Yes folks, Intelligent Design, the throry that life is soo complex that we could never hope to figure it out and that could not occur unless someone or something were to create it. Creationism is back baby, now with 5% more science*. Not only is it back, it's being presented to our nations best scientists as if it were an honest to god (pun not intended) theory.

I have a few problems with this. One, assuming that life is so complex that we'll never be able to understand it is just asking to be proven wrong. Especially when scientists keep filling in Evolution's "holes" all the time.

Two, does anyone see anything troubling about developing a theory just to support what a book says, no matter how revered that book is? People tried to do this with the writings of L. Ron Hubbard and all we got out of it was Scientology and Battlefield Earth. And you see where that got us.

Three, life ain't always perfect. For as grand a thing as life is there are some pretty spectacular failures. Why would an intelligent designer allow for such things as, oh I don't know, the blind spot of the human eye. There are species out there without that nasty limitation. Why would an intelligent designer give some animals pentachromatic vision and leave us with only trichromatic vision? I really wish our "intelligent" designer would have spent a few million more years working out the kinks. (I forgot the earth is only 4000 years old, oops).

Four, why do we need a group called Christians in the Workplace? You're in the majority, deal with it.

I'm going to come up with my own theory. I'm going around the country to argue against the thought that people cannot travel faster than the speed of light using conventional means. I mean, relativity is only a THEORY. And if the police can't tell me how fast I should go I'll be dammed if I'm going to let some geeky physicist tell me how fast I can go. Infinite mass at light speed be damned. And I'm going to do it using fossil fuels, the fuel of the future**.

Faith tread not where it does not belong.

*(or science like substitute)
**(future does not include armageddon, currently slated for January 7th 2042).