SOUNDTRACK TO MY LIFE:

So, here’s how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that’s playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool and no disclaimers allowed.

Opening Credits:
When You’re Young – The Jam

Waking Up:
Just as Nice – Man of the Year

First Day At School:
To Have And To Have Not – Billy Bragg

Falling In Love:
Distance Equals Rate Times Time – The Pixies

Fight Song:
Beat Surrender – The Jam

Breaking Up:
Hands Clean – Alanis Morissette

Prom:
Dawn’s Ballet – The Cast of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Mental Breakdown:
Naked – Avril Lavigne

Driving:
Eventually – Pink

Flashback:
Lover’s Rock – The Clash

Getting back together:
La La Love You – The Pixies

Wedding:
Walk On By – The Stranglers

Birth of Child:
Hell’s Ditch – The Pogues

Final Battle:
Samba – Bond

Death Scene:
Picture this – Blondie

Funeral Song:
It’s a Hard Life – Queen

End Credits:
Beauty On The Fire – Natalie Imbruglia

So very true

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I know!

Scary Americans

Have a read of this.

The data from several recent Gallup studies suggest that Americans’ religious behavior is highly correlated with beliefs about evolution. Those who attend church frequently are much less likely to believe in evolution than are those who seldom or never attend. That Republicans tend to be frequent churchgoers helps explain their doubts about evolution.

The data indicate some seeming confusion on the part of Americans on this issue. About a quarter of Americans say they believe both in evolution’s explanation that humans evolved over millions of years and in the creationist explanation that humans were created as is about 10,000 years ago.

Specifically:

Now thinking about how human beings came to exist on Earth, do you, personally, believe in evolution, or not?

	Yes, believe in evolution	No, do not	No opinion
2007 May 21-24	49	48	2

It’s close but education seems to be winning out over superstition by a small margin.

Apparently we in England are much less likely to suffer from fundamentalist opinions but I’m not so sure.  To me evolution offers the best explanation for the origin and development of life on this planet.  It disturbs me that schools in England are being pressurised into teaching creationist dogma in science classes rather than the most up to date scientific knowledge. See here or here for more information.

Personally I’d like to see religious education taught as mythology rather than as morality and as fact.  In fact I think the world would be considerably better off without religion of any kind.