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As you have probably heard, there is lots of controversy over the teaching of Intelligent Design in schools. There was a ruling yesterday that called it unconstutional. Today, I heard a very good opinion about the court decision and I.D. in general. (It is an opinion in favor of it, but I think well balanced.) You can listen to it here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5065062

Most arguments against Intelligent Design go like this:
-ID is really creationism.
-Creationism deals with religion — ie the supernatural
-the supernatural is not possible
-therefore ID is bad science

Another arguement against Intelligent Design:
-ID takes Evolution, which is an atheistic idea and fills God into the places Evolution has problems.
-ID then really is a “God of the Gaps” theory.
-God is bigger than the Gaps
-ID is bad.

Most arguments for Intelligent Design go like this:
-Evolution is a completely atheistic idea
-Atheisim is bad/wrong
-Creationism is right
-ID is right

I really like the explaination of I.D. in the opinion peice, which is basiclly that ID is looking at the complexities found in biology and looking at empirical evidence to whether those complexities arised out of purely natural-mechincal processes or was there design in it.

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originally uploaded by Matt Wissman.

This weekend was the first a series of three holiday, traveling weekends. I took half a day off Friday to drive up. I went to my Aunt’s house for family holiday gathering number 1. It was good to see my Aunt’s family again. Wow, do their kids have energy.

Saturday, I went to a wedding with my family. It was one of our camp friends. There were lots of camp people there — it was good to see them.

This morning I went over to the farm to see some of the new Angus. This one, is half Angus, half Holstine. It was strange not having all the cows in the barn yard and the silence of the usually humming milking parlor.

Well, I need to do some photo scanning for my sister.

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Earlier this year my old point-n-shoot digital camera died. I’ve been trying to decide what to do for a few months now. Well, I finally got a new digital. I didn’t go all the way and get a digital SLR camera. They are still a bit out of my price range. Instead, I got a nice point-n-shoot. The Canon A610 is the one I decided on. I know, I’m a Nikon Guy, but Canon makes really nice digital point-n-shoot cameras. It has lots of nice features, like manual, shutter, and apeture prioity modes, grid lines, spot metering and a cool flip out screen. This doesn’t mean I’m now a ‘Canon Guy’, just that for the kind of camera I wanted (advaned Point-n-shoot at a low cost), Canon had the best option. I’m still a ‘Nikon Guy’ that dreams for a D2x or a D200, but will settle for a D70s.