Eric: Christmas Carol, online social networks and EVOLUTION

Christmas Carol

The Christmas Carol was really good. The flue/cold season must be in full swing though, as the first 15 minutes of the show was dominated by the coughing sounds of our fellow theater goers. Afterwards we enjoyed a light meal at Houlihan’s. Most importantly, Janna enjoyed the evening!


Online social networks

The internet has sparked many internet social networks, including the facebook and everyone’s connected. I have a profile on both, maybe you can find it. They are an interesting development as they allow one to stay in contact and find long lost friends. People can and do spend hours on them, I try to be reasonable about it though.


Evolution and Intelligent Design

A federal court has struck down the teaching of “intelligent design” in a school district in Pennsylvania. This issue is difficult for me. On one side, it is an objective fact that 40+% of Americans have a sincere belief in Creationism. Therefore any education would be incomplete without explaining this to students. However, I can also respect the fact that the teaching of science (and current scientific theory embraces an evolutionary understanding of the origin of life) should not be easily influenced by those pushing an agenda. “ID” seems to me to be an attempt to clothe creationism in scientific sounding language. From my point of view real science and real religion are the same thing, so I am not afraid to examine what science currently understands because it is an imperfect revelation of truth. If that truth were fully understood I believe science and the Bible would match up; although perhaps in ways we wouldn’t expect or currently imagine.

But then again, I always went to Christian and then private school………


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