A Rant on Evolution and Science in Islam

Note: This post (if you could call it a post, it's more like a collection of incoherent ramblings) is based off of my experiences with Muslims my age (14-15) in my area of the country (the Bible Belt). This is obviously not representative of the entire Ummah. 

I want to have a talk about evolution without some uneducated person telling me "Well, you can believe whatever you want, but you have your opinion and I have mine."

Sigh. 


I'm going to let Hank Green explain why I can't stand it when people deny objective facts and evolution and then we'll go from there.

You know what also irks me? When Muslims say they don't believe in evolution and act like science is something that we should be afraid of. This bugs me for a few reasons: 

1. What Hank mentioned above
2. Muslims have made so many contributions to science! It's so sad that so many Muslims deny science!
3. The people who told me they don't believe in evolution all want to be doctors. Wut? O_o  

I have so much happy

I've been recovering from depression for a long, long time.

My highs were high and my lows were low. And during my emotional highs, I've felt as though I was just so happy- too happy- and that I needed something negative to bring myself down. With depression, anger and sadness were my defaults, and being happy or excited, especially for extended periods of time, was abnormal. I had to force myself to find something to be angry about, and I usually did, dragging myself down to my normal depression.

Lately I've been happy all the time, but not abnormally happy. It's starting to feel more normal, and there's less of a need to be sad or angry at someone. I'm less quick to anger.

The past month has been a lot better. My relationship with my mom has been much, much healthier. We spent some time together shopping and watching TV yesterday. She wasn't mad when I made last minute plans. I haven't groaned when she has asked me to do chores.

We say "I love you" a lot.

The trick? I'm not sure. I've found that I have to keep myself constantly busy with school, debate, and other extracurriculars, especially the state National History Day competition coming up in a few weeks. If I'm not busy, I'm sitting around on the internet all day feeling sad and bad for myself.

Now I just have to find the perfect balance between being super stressed and busy all the time and doing nothing at all.