A flash in the pan

Once I skipped something in my schedule - only once. And all my enthusiasm was gone, all my plans once again were subject of procrastination. I had a week off at University, almost no lectures whatsoever - and still was unable to do anything.

Oh well. Happens.

Meanwhile though I had an opportunity to have a discussion with a man over the Ocean. Hey, do you know how to get more popular instantly on the Internet, at least for some time among a certain group of people? Find a forum or a site on which you can upload some picture etc., the bigger the community the better. And post something in regard of, for example, religion. And watch people argue - not over your work or what you said, for they will forget it really quickly. After all, they only needed - longed for - a provocation.

Actually, I did not publish anything like this. I took part in the discussion, and man, I wish I hadn't. When your adversary is someone foolish and only tries to shout louder than you, it's no problem, you just cease to talk, it is useless anyway. Actually, sometimes it's worse to meet someone cultural on the opposite side. Wouldn't it be terribly rude if I just didn't reply (not to mention pride - to lose a discussion simply walking away? Hell no!)? Yet I have to tell you - man, it's so tiresome to discuss with creationists.

The guy is intelligent enough to continue the dispute, yet blind enough to miss my arguments. I got to say though, he made me do some study on such classics as Voltaire or on some physics, the entropy law to be specific. Would you believe someone might claim to know a scientific proof against evolution? I wonder what are they taught in the US. I'm so happy to live in a country enlightened enough to fire a minister who postulates creationism and wants it to be taught at school...

So. Be sure to choose your adversaries for a debate wisely (for arguing with dogmas is no use, too) and revise the basics of thermodynamic before you talk to creationists, kids. And be ready to prove them the Earth is a sphere, you can never be sure what else might they come up with.