Barry the Monkey

What do you think this story means? (it really does have another meaning by the way)

Barry the Monkey is a mischievous little monkey who is always getting into trouble. Sometimes he plays tricks on the other animals, but he isn't trying to be mean. He just wants to have fun. There are some animals that don't like Barry. They say that he is mean and plays too many tricks. Barry wants to be nice but he always does something that keeps him from doing nice things for the other animals. One day Barry decided that he wanted to tell the giraffes a funny story but they wouldn't listen to him. They said he was mean just like the other monkey that visited them earlier. Barry was sad, so he went back to the place where all the monkeys live and he found out that his friend Jerry had been saying mean things to the giraffes. This made Barry even sadder so he tried to think of something to do to that would make the giraffes his friends again but nothing he did would get them to forget what Jerry had said. Barry even told the giraffes that he didn't know that Jerry was so mean, but the giraffes said that they didn't believe him.

Looks like ol' Nye made someone mad

The Emmy-winning scientist angered a few audience members when he criticized literal interpretation of the biblical verse Genesis 1:16, which reads: “God made two great lights — the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.”

He pointed out that the sun, the “greater light,” is but one of countless stars and that the “lesser light” is the moon, which really is not a light at all, rather a reflector of light.

A number of audience members left the room at that point, visibly angered by what some perceived as irreverence.

“We believe in a God!” exclaimed one woman as she left the room with three young children.

Looks like ol' Nye made some people mad, but they have no reason to be mad. First of all the Bible wasn't written by God, it was written by his servants the prophets. Not only that, it doen't state that the lesser light generated light in and of itself. The Bible simply states that the moon is a lesser light, which it is, but it does not state that it makes the light it sheds on the Earth. Besides someone with truly firm faith in God would not be so offened by this because they would know that despite what scientists claim to have proven that God exists.

(Yes, I did just attack the strength of your faith. Oh, well)

It's Earth Day

Today is Earth Day, a holiday that really should be celebrated everyday. We live on this Earth and we should be grateful for it everyday and we must share the responsibility for it's health. We must do everything that we can to ensure the continued health of our home. Luckily there are many simple things that we can do. The simplest of which would be to create a more widespread recycling system. The first thing to do would be to integrate recycling into the school systems because they use so much paper the mostly ends up in a landfill, it could be recycled and turned back into useful products. A more complex solution would be to increase research into the area of alternative fuel sources so that we can get away from oil, not only for political freedom, so that we can let the air clean itself up. (Its not like we can do much to speed up the process)