What I Learned Today #1

The first of what will hopefully be a daily installment of various anecdotes about the stuff going on around me.

1. One of the classes I'm taking this semester is an anthropology class entitled "Human Evolution". So far it's mostly been a mixture of the basics of anthropology and the basics of evolutionary biology. Today, we had our first test (it was easy). Now, before the test began, most of the students were getting in some last-minute studying, alone or by talking to each other (I believe I was singing the theme song of Yu Yu Hakusho in my head, or something like that). I happen (read: purposely eavesdropped) to overhear the guy behind me talking to the girl next to him. Apparently, he doesn't "believe" in natural selection.

WTF?

First of all, how the hell do you take a class called "Human Evolution" without accepting the existence of one of the four main forces of the process the class is concerned with, much less the one that is most closely associated with the process of evolution? Why did he even sign up for the class? Did he seriously think this course wasn't going to be about how humans evolved? Did he think that it was going to be a course that just attacked the idea of human evolution? because that sure as hell wasn't in the course description.

Second of all, natural selection isn't something that people just believe in, akin to "I believe in Santa Claus" or "I believe that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior". It's a theory, and like all theories it has a shit-ton of evidence to back it up. Hell, this was covered in the fucking readings for the course! Honestly, this sort of thing astounds me.

2. The word "blog" sounds awful, especially when said aloud multiple times in close succession during a tutorial about how to make one.

3. Watching your friends play a BESM campaign can be very boring when all they're doing is screwing around while trying to wake eachother's characters up and you're waiting for a call from your ride home. Also, BESM shouldn't be played in rooms with bad acoustics.