Ethan turned 6 last week. I came home from work melancholy and was appreciating watching him playing care-free, thinking how amazing it was that he’s been in our lives for six years now. So proud of the the little guy he is and is becoming. Reflecting on how fast time flies and how fleeting these moments are… As I was working in my office later he comes in and starts singing with a song he had learned from the Aladdin soundtrack that he got recently ‘Proud of your boy’ trying to follow the words and mimic the singers inflection and emphasis…I hadn’t heard this song before that I can remember, and his performance combined with what I’d been thinking about…it was overwhelming. I wished I could capture the moment on video for a second before realizing that would be impossible and that the moment was to dynamic to catch.

I am so proud of my little boy. I love you Ethan.

Mr Myers links to a creationist presenting some ‘intelligent design’ in her evangelistic appeal and his response is literally little more than “lies, lies, lies”, with the usual name calling (’stupid’). The ladies enthusiastic presentation isn’t as careful as I would like but in general many of points she asserts are things that bother me with the ideas of Darwinian macro evolution and I would imagine niggle in the minds of many.

Even the smugness of the ladies presentation apparently bothers him. I would’ve thought smugness was something he was entirely comfortable with reading his blog.

That encourages me that the broadly read Myers would post a message like that with such a weak response. I suppose he doesn’t think it deserves more or has responded elsewhere, and I suppose many wouldn’t get past the first 30 seconds of it…but some of the points amidst the rant are not easy to deal with and might make someone think… even amidst all the ‘lies, lies, lies’. Questions like how does incredibly large amounts of complex organized information come about in a vacuum.