'Creative' question?

Hi folks! I, Eric Santoro, in an ongoing effort to remain genuinely fair and balanced, have been seeking ideas, opinions, and beliefs from all sides of some issues that I have passionate interest in.. I'm going to dive into one of those here, and I'm going to attempt to do it objectively.

I have become intrigued by the crusade of some academic circles, and Darwinian scientists to completely remove God from every facet of our American lives. We don't want God in our schools, on money, on diplomas/degrees, or in the workplace.. As if God has no place in the teaching or practice of rational thought, which begs the question.. Why? I want to focus on the scientific/academic side of this issue, which actually brings me back to the start of my inquisition.. I have seen and heard numerous accounts of scientists and teachers alike being ostracized from their respective communities for merely SUGGESTING the notion of intelligent design as a possibility for the origins of life on Earth, not fully endorsing it, but SUGGESTING it. That contradicts everything that science is, doesn't it? I mean, if you don't have the freedom as a scientist to argue the status quo (which, in today's science world I believe to be Darwinism) then isn't science just another turn on the hideous face of today's political world? And if that's the case, how can we learn from it?? I don't care what you believe, be it Creationism, Evolution, The Big-Bang Theory, or anything in between, to speculate the origin of life on earth, you're subscribing to some pretty far-out shit. Which leads us to part two..

I'm fascinated by people who view it as "preposterous" to entertain the the idea of Creationism, or pass it off as a fairy-tale superstition, created by a few, to scare many... All the while, adamantly postulating that life sprung from the ground by mere chance, on a big rock that, again, by mere chance was spun- off amidst the universal turmoil and chaos, resulting from the explosion of a high-density atom that, itself, was just floating in the middle of this big, black thing we call space, some eons ago. And again, amidst all the chaos, this rock just happened to have the perfect balance of elements to sustain life, and be sitting EXACTLY the perfect distance from that big star we call the Sun.. The fine-tuning of it all is staggeringly incomprehensible. Again, I say all this objectively, and I realize that the above is an over-simplification of the ideas in question, but that's not the point.. Every theory or belief has it's "holes", it's unanswered questions.. And THAT is my point. Who are we to dis-credit, or otherwise decide what's true and what's not? Scientists should be able to pursue all angles of possibility, teachers should be able to present all sides of possibility, which, like it or not, includes intelligent design.. Which in turn, leads me to believe, objectively, that perhaps we shouldn't be so quick to eradicate God from the face of America. Just saying. :)

In other news, The Wayne is still studio-side, working on the album that will make me a millionaire. ;) As always, stay tuned!!!