when you see the elephants, go straight

Recent input has confirmed that this is a mostly angry blog. booooo. So here's a little goddamn cheer.

I went to the new Darwin exhibit at the Museum of Natural History this weekend (and highly recommend it). Apparently Darwin was studying to be a clergymen as per his father's wishes before embarking on the round-the-world boat trip that changed his life and sparked his ideas about evolution. Oh, irony.

Despite skepticism among my boyfriend and other crazies, evolution is, in fact, a fact; evolution by the process of Natural Selection remains a theory.

Darwin himself was a fascinasting character whose rigor puts my laziness to shame. I could do without the beetle collection, though. He also took pleasure in eating just about every species of animal he came across, including an armadillo.

And the crisis of a Christian scientist investigating the origin of species is one that seems not to have been resolved in any clear way. Maybe there's little hope for our current clash of ideologies...

Anyway, ideological crises aside, a live iguana and some cute little frogs make the trip to the museum worthwhile.