Hallelujah!

Pharyngula took about 300 atheists to the Creation 'Museum' at the weekend, looking for a dignified discussion with that organisation. There are a lot of posts and pictures about it over there, so I won't go into details, but I wish I'd been there as it looks like a lot of fun. I particularly loved the exhibit notes which described every geological period (Jurassic etc) as dating to about 2348 B.C., and the careful explanation that dinosaurs ate meat 'after the Fall', as everything was vegetarian prior to that.

My Fall came in the second year of university. I went vegetarian in school when I was 16 - the only one in the place, which caused trouble. Everyone else viewed it as subversion, and the staff literally didn't know what it entailed. Cold ham appeared ('it's just ham') at first, and seafood was regularly presented. The general standard of the food improved massively though, as somebody had to cook it specially. For the first year at university, I mostly ate carrots - just because I liked them. I was a trifle on the slim side though. Then gradually curries and bacon sandwiches, even kebabs started to appeal and I gave in: I now enjoy a multitude of species, though only free-range and local corpses.