I have returned

August 26th, 2008 • chatter, education
Tags: creationism, school

The blog hiatus was over and I was due for one. The Olympics really helped steer me away from my huge daily intake of news articles and blog posts, I was beginning to get a little burned out. Also, school started this week and it’s going to be a doozy for sure.

Today’s class was aptly titled Anthropology, Evolution, and Creationism. I didn’t make a typo, this is my new Tues/Thurs. class and it’s definitely going to be interesting. Professor McCarthy was trying his hardest to maintain a non-biased stance in class but I certainly didn’t make it any easier for him. It was interesting to hear comments from people who didn’t really know what evolution or creationism were, I’m wondering why they even signed up. If they weren’t scared off after today’s all over the place discussion, I’m not so sure they’re going to enjoy the ensuing weeks.

I got a huge chuckle out of our syllabus. We’re watching both the South Park episode on Scientology (and discussing Mormonism the same week) and watching Expelled in class! I thought I was seeing things at first until the teacher began talking about the syllabus. Yeah, it’s no joke. We get to talk about Xenu, the Disco Institute IDiots, and all sorts of crazy stuff interlaced with Dawkins and Nietzsche.

Anyway, I’m neck-deep in two weeks’ of RSS feeds and I need to go read for class on Thursday. I’ll be back to update on the next real class we have of Evolution and Creationism.