u/Icy_Eagle3833

anybody got an official offer for summer research? they will email me when they assign it, right? I'm trying to rent a house and the landlord wants it.

It’s just insane to imagine that when Darwin and Mendel were already around 200 years ago, and now that we can see things from the scale of electrons to superclusters, we know exactly how gravity curves spacetime and how DNA base pairs, there are still people believing there is a humanoid God sitting up there who created humans and all the other animals, and light (massless photons) and electrons one by one… You really have to be COMPLETELY blind to be able to do that. I mean you don’t even need to be an expert on the Bible in order to argue about it. You just need to find ONE absurdity, just one, to instantly realize the book is almost certainly a joke, given the absolute unassailability and holiness it claims. (If I were the author, I certainly would not act so confident; instead I would probably claim: God told me last night in a dream, but it’s been 2 hours since I started writing, so the memory kinda faded.)

But of course, even for religious people these modern theories are nothing new, although they choose to ignore them since, as I suppose, they are more or less blind. On the other hand, nonreligious people usually do not mind some people believing a fairy tale they choose to believe, as long as they don’t bring any harm. And it seems like they really do not, in 2026, at least not another crusade. Some would even argue that religion brings a more well-behaved society (although the well-behavedness comes from a literal threat; you are going to hell if you don’t behave), so what’s wrong with believing?

At least that’s my impression of religious people. And if it were several minutes ago, I certainly would not write here to attack such a group of sweet people. But then I was scrolling on Instagram and saw a completely deformed humanoid baby, with all eyes wide open and staring. There were 3 eyes, 2 shared the same pit. That scene was so invasively ugly and scary to me that my heart vomited and I instantly opened the comments to hide it, just to see this comment: “sometimes it’s better to kill.”

“To kill”, what a bloody word. If the guy were less blunt and more sophisticated, he would have phrased it as: “sometimes it’s better not to have it born”, and thereby gotten more likes from the soft-hearted. But he did not, and therefore gave this guy the ultimate right to override his morals and comment “how dare you say that to A GOD’S CREATURE”.

If that was created by God, then this old man, up there, might have the most deformed heart I have seen. This really led me to think about a question, to which I still don’t have an answer: if something is not true but can bring “goodness”, is it worth it? And furthermore, is the “goodness” even real, like, does it bring any ACTUAL benefit to anybody in this world?

The only thing I’m sure of is that, in that disaster, nobody benefited, not the baby (he’s going to face something worse than hell), nor the parents, nor me. The only one that seems satisfied, was that Christian.