So, I'm sort of answering my sister's question about why I haven't posted in a while.
First of all, my main blog is
likelierthings.com, and I
have posted there. My Xanga sort of tends to get used for more personal stuff, and right now I'm not all that anxious to post to the world a whole lot of stuff about my personal life. I don't have a lot to say that wouldn't involve a sort of tearing as it came out of me, and to fling onto a public forum the bloody pulp of a personal observation torn out by violent means would be unfair to pretty much everybody. And that doesn't mean that everything's going badly, just that I want to be careful whom I share this all with. I'm not sure I'm happy in a culture where, apparently, some people exist
solely for the purpose of being the subject of gossip *coughparishiltoncough*
Anyway, if you wander over to
likelierthings.com, know the following true things:
- I do think Evolution happened (as in macro-evolution, as in "life started from chemicals and evolved into us").
- This does not mean God does not exist. The evidence for God's existence comes from other sources than as an explanation for what we can't completely describe scientifically.
- Scientists who think that Evolution proves (or suggests) that God does not exist are delusional. Their judgment is not based on science but on their own atheistic philosophies.
- The official "Intelligent Design" guys: Dembski, Behe, Johnson, et al, are barking up the wrong tree. They are wrong about some things. Nevertheless, the universe does show signs of "intelligent design".
- I fully believe everything God teaches us in Genesis. I also believe that he was not teaching us about the length of time it took for him to create. But there are some good books that tell us about what he was teaching us in Genesis.We need to be veerry careful when we read ancient texts not to make distinctions that they didn't make. The ancient Hebrews didn't think about "science" or "reading literally" the same way we do. (This does not mean that the Bible does not have true history in it. The Bible has many different kinds of literature in it: poetry, epic, parables, history, proverbs. We need to be careful we do not mistake one kind of literature for another.)
Anyway, I know that quite a few of my former students occasionally read my Xanga, and I don't want to undermine parents' and teachers' authority. I might be wrong. I truly believe that if we respectfully submit to the Truth that is found in Jesus Christ and discuss these things in charity, we will come to know the truth about all of God's Creation, and in doing so we will find out more about the One who created it all.
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Besides, you don't have to post personal stuff. You can always include a link to a website or page that you've found especially amusing (like that Darth Vader phones the Emperor thing).