Originally Posted by **********

When I was a kid, my parents really got me interested in science. My dad and I used to build electronic kits from Etco and Radio Shack together. I learned how to build simple circuits, and how you could get electricity from light.

They also bought me a little chemistry set. I could learn all about chemical reactions, in a safe way of course.

They also bought me a kid-sized telescope, a microscope. It was so cool how I could see the moon as another world, and then look at a grain of sand in a microscope and yet another world, or see life swimming around in a drop of water.

Another toy my Dad bought me was one called "Natures Window". Essentially, it was seeds of different plants that you put into a pitri dish and a clear cone that, when exposed to sunlight, would grow really fast.

I had a weather station too. A couple of instruments outside provided data to let me predict the weather for the next few days (fun!) but taught me all kinds of stuff without realizing it.

Of course, the best gift ever was of my first computer; the ultimate in science-geek-tech.

The coolest thing I learned back then was how all of these things were connected to each other. Light & heat and chemistry and energy and life and how everything can affect everything else, and how it can all be measured with electronics and computers.

I know it's really easy for you to discount real news and real science, especially when it contradicts your own personal beliefs. I urge you though to try not to do this. Science affects you and every single part of the universe. You are missing out on some really cool stuff if you don't take the time to learn about it a little.