TaviaMaeBradshaw

Down to you

You’re pushing and pulling me down to you

But I don’t know what I

Now when I caught myself, I had to stop myself

From saying something that I should’ve never thought

Now when I caught myself, I had to stop myself

From saying something that I should’ve never thought of you

Of you

You’re pushing and pulling me down to you

But I don’t know what I want

No, I don’t know what I want

You got it, you got it, some kind of magic

Hypnotic, hypnotic, you’re leaving me breathless

I hate this, I hate this, you’re not the one I believe in

With God as my witness

Now when I caught myself, I had to stop myself

From saying something that I should’ve never thought

Now when I caught myself, I had to stop myself

From saying something that I should’ve never thought of you

Of you

You’re pushing and pulling me down to you

But I don’t know what I want

No, I don’t know what I want!

Don’t know what I want

But I know it’s not you

Keep pushing and pulling me down

When I know in my heart it’s not you

Now when I caught myself, I had to stop myself

From saying something that I should’ve never thought

Now when I caught myself, I had to stop myself

From saying something that I should’ve never thought of you

I knew

I know in my heart it’s not you, I knew

But now I know what I want, I want, I want

Oh no, I’ve should have never thought!

- Paramore

The voices in my head just won’t leave me be

They whisper all day

Like the ringing in your ears

The leaves blowing in the wind

Like the grumbles in the pit of your stomach

The voices in my head just won’t leave me be

They scream throughout the night

Like the murder victim down the street

The starving child that haunts your dreams

The wife who’s husband gives her twenty beats

The voices in my head just won’t leave me be

I beg and I plead

For my life; for my sanity

But they just won’t leave me be…

For years, the scientific community has debated where intelligent life on Earth began. The Cambrian explosion begins the controversy with species of unprecedented complexity arising in a very short period of time. The development of complex organs such as the eyes of vertebrates and the flagella of bacteria continue to stump specialists. Whales have baffle scientists for decades with their abnormally large size and lack of similar features. Fossils prove the theory of evolution and how life on Earth came to be without the assistance of an intelligent creator.

THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION

The Cambrian Explosion took place around 530 million years ago. It was a period of five to ten million years where a large number of complex multi-celled organisms were believed to have suddenly appeared. Intelligent design suggests this amount of species growth and diversity could not have happened as quickly as it did were it up to nature. However, further analysis of the fossils that were believed to hold the proof of the Cambrian Explosion showed the species growth had actually been going on for three billion years. “The discovery of new pre-Cambrian and Cambrian fossils help, as these traditional forms support the hypothesis that diversification was well underway before the Cambrian began.” It is believed that natural selection favoured larger sizes and hard skeletons. In a span of three billion years, there was plenty of time for evolution to change these species. The more gradual adaptation was happening at the molecular level. The modern sequencing of genomes shows the genes and proteins that thousands of life forms have been conserved from the Precambrian era.

THE EYES OF VERTEBRATES AND THE FLAGELLA OF BACTERIA

Both the eyes of vertebrates and the flagella of bacteria must contain every part or they cease to function properly or at all. Intelligent design suggests creating organs like this is impossible in a step by step process. The pieces would have developed at different times and at different rates and the organ would not have been able to function while it was developing. Thus it would not have been beneficial at the time and would not have advanced at all. Nonetheless, just like everything else, the eye and flagella both developed in stages. The organs need all of their parts to function now, but while they were progressing they would have performed in different ways. The eyes of vertebrates, the flagella of bacteria and other similar complex structures have fossilized proof of their intermediary stages. They are both thought to have started developing during the Cambrian explosion.

WHALES

Whales are mammals, not fish. This suggests that is evolution is responsible for the many species on earth, whales developed from a land animal. Intelligent design believers have a hard time grasping this one. “To fix all the mutations needed to convert a little land mammal into a fully functional whale [in ten million years] — mathematically that’s not possible.” Despite that statement, specialists found proof in the Pakistani desert; the fossil of a forty-seven million year old pregnant whale. “Land mammals are generally born head first, and marine mammals are born tale first.” The fetus remains were found with its head opposite to its mother’s. It is believed that whale ancestors (which were furry, four-legged omnivores) lives on the shore eating the fish that washed up. They realized the potential of more food if they entered the water, and continued deeper as time went on and their species evolved. First they developed into a range of amphibious species, which in turn evolved into fully aquatic species eventually becoming the animals we see today.

CONCLUSION

With the advancing technology, fossils are becoming much clearer to read. Smaller details noticed, and what once was thought to be millions of years could actually be billions of years. Intelligent design was an acceptable way to explain life on earth before more recent discoveries. Now that specialists have found more information in these fossils, evolution can be logically explained. Species growth was happening on the molecular level long before it was believed to have started in the Cambrian explosion. Organs with several complex interaction parts did have intermediate development stages. The evolution of land mammals to whales can be explained logically with physical evidence. Fossils can be deceiving but ultimately prove what paleobiologists have been trying to explain for years. Evolution created life on earth the way it is today, and all the evidence is available.

REFERENCES

Eichenseher, T. (2009, February 3). Early Whales Gave Birth on Land, Fossils Reveal. National Geographic News. Retrieved April 27, 2011, from http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/090203-pregnant-whale-fossil.html

Johnston, I. Short Proof of Evolution. Vancouver Island University Records. Retrieved April 27, 2011, from http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/courtenay1.htm

Perkins, R. Cambrian Explosion. The Virtual Fossil Museum. Retrieved April 28, 2011, from http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Paleobiology/CambrianExplosion.htm

Than, K. Evolution vs. Intelligent Design: 6 Bones of Contention. National Geographic News. Retrieved April 27, 2011, from http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/11/photogalleries/091123-origin-species-darwin-150-intelligent-design/index.html

Things I don’t really like about my new iPhone:

-I can’t change the amount of time it gives me to “snooze” for my alarms.

-Constantly having to avoid people’s drool as the gawk at it. (because it’s so damn beautiful)

-It doesn’t mark my emails as “read” on anything but the phone itself.

Best things about my new iPhone:

-ALL of the apps are better for the iPhone than they were for the Blackberry.

-NEVER freezes

-makes connecting to wi-fi REALLY easy. (SAVE DATA USAGE ON MY BILL!)

-I almost never have to use my computer anymore. My phone does EVERYTHING.

Things I miss about my Blackberry:

-Umm…

-Talking to my friends with blackberrys in other countries over BBM for free. (But soon I can talk to the ones with iPhones the same way so…)

-I guess we’re back to nothing.

Things I DEFINITELY don’t miss about my Blackberry:

-Ripping the battery out to get it to restart

-Getting emails HOURS after they were sent

-Having to go on the internet because the Facebook app was such a piece of junk.

-Losing pieces of the phone because all of the stupid little screws were broken.

-Ripping the battery out AGAIN, because it’s frozen AGAIN!

Well… I think it’s pretty clear what I’ve decided here. What do you think?

You pretend you don’t care,

to avoid being used.

You convince yourself you’re better than them,

so their judgments don’t hurt.

You act like it’s no big deal,

even if you’re hating every minute of it.

When you see a post like this you think,

“goddamn it, another over-emotional teen”.

When I write a post like this I think,

“goddamn it, another over-emotional day”.

Whether you’re reading it or writing it,

it sucks.

But we put each other through it anyway,

so we know we’re not going through it alone.

I’d say I’m sorry to disappoint you, but I’m not. I excel at not giving a crap. Experience has taught me that interest begets expectation, and expectation begets disappointment, so the key to avoiding disappointment is to avoid interest. A equals B equals C or A or whatever. I also don’t have a lot of interest in being a good person or a bad person. From what I can tell, either way, you’re screwed. Bad people are punished by societies laws, and all good people are punished by Murphy’s laws. How fair is that? I mean, you sit here and act like you’ve gotten so far. Well, how far have you gotten? I mean it’s not like this is a corner office with a view, and like everyday you have to find jobs for other people, mostly that are going to be better than yours and that has to suck. I bet they don’t pay you much either. Just making an observation.

-George Lass (Pilot episode - 2003)