I can bend Time AND Space!

I can't find my copy of Frankenstein: I just know I couldn't have lost it, so I must have put it in another dimension or something like that.  Seriously, I was about 3/4 of the way through and it just disappeared.  It was an excellent read so far. If you haven't read it, I highly suggest it. The language is different as it was written well over 100 years ago, but it isn't that tough to understand.  It is an example of Romantic Literature, lots of references to the beauty and wonder of nature etc.

I find it interesting how different the novel is from the Frankenstein myth that we know and love from movies.  No lightening storm to raise the creature, no bolts in his neck, no mention of having to find a brain and worst of all: no Igor!!!  I demand an Igor!

In the novel, the monster is born gentle, but due to the mistreatment from other people and his abandonment by his creator, he becomes homicidal.  Even when the creature finds Dr. F., he doesn't want revenge, he wants a wife; someone to love and to be loved in return.  I do find it strange that Mary Shelly doesn't mention the lack of a soul as the cause for any of the creature's pain and suffering.  In fact, I didn't see any mention of the creature as having or not having a soul. I can see man making (animating) a human like creature, but we are not divine and can't create a soul.  Ant ideas on why this is missing?  Or did I miss something?

The other book I read was Evolution: Thiumph of an Idea by Carl Zimmer.  This is a non-fiction look at the theory of evolution. It goes into Darwin's early life as a naturalist on the Beagle and his trip around the world where he visited the Galapagos islands, natural selection, sexual selection, coevolution, human evolution and other facets on the topic.  Most importantly in my opinion, the author discusses the theory of intelligent design, and why it just isn't good science.  I am shocked that US school boards are actually trying to teach this in their science classes.  Natural phenonenon can't ever be explained by "God said so.".  I'm a Christian, I'm proud of it, but I find that proponents of Intellegent Design to be extremely arrogant to claim to know how God does his thang.  If He knows each of us by name, knows us better than we know ourselves, and there are over 6 billion of us, why is it so hard to accept that He could have created a universe in which evolution works?  Oh, now I'm just mad.

I thought that the US was big into separation of church and state. This is one slippery slope I can't belive Americans are going down. Any thoughts?

On the gaming front: I am at over 100 hours in Final Fantasy XII and still going strong.  I play whenever the wee girl lets me.  Today she refuses to nap, and is enjoying playing her bum trumpet (or "bumpet").  Gotta go change a gross diaper....