My Faith vs. Science Rant
This is copied directly from my Avariel journal, circa April 4 2003, so there's some irrelevant stuff in it. Anyway:
Here I am, finally making a real update.
(What's this? He's actually going to say something about himself that's not self-deprecating or begging? Amazing!)
Yes. It is.
Anyway, first of all, I edited the poem, and the teacher really thinks I can win. The prize: A Border's Gift Certificate! Yay?... Ah well. Anyway, the only really bad thing that's happened to me recently was I hurt my ankle in Japanese class, and have trouble walking for the past couple days. Not too bad.It actually gave me an excuse to hop around on one foot all day.
Alright, now for the serious part. My Faith vs. Science rant.
Now, as I've said before on this board, I am a Baptist Christian. I come from a strong Baptist family. I am strong in my faith. But I'm also a scientist. Now, some people might say, "But Andrew, how can you be both? They're opposites of eachother." I tell them, "But how can you be so closed minded?" I believe in the book of Genesis. I also believe in Darwinism. And the Big Bang. I believe that God is in control of everything. And yet, I also believe in Chaos Theory. And (to an extent, but that has nothing to do with this) the Quantum.
Allow me to explain. About the book of Genesis. The whole Seven Days story. First of all, this is the creation of the Universe we're talking about. Time did not exist yet. But, let's assume that that came with the "Heavens and the Earth". Now, just because it says "seven days" does not mean that it took seven rotations of the earth. Seven days to God, and seven days to men, are two different things. (Now I'm gonna tie this all together) In the first day for [b]Him[/i], he created the Universe by concentrating an infinite amount of energy, into an infinitely small space, until it exploded, sending incomprehensible amounts of mass and energy into the void. Then, a couple billion Solar-cycles later, he hits his second day, and does his thing. Another couple billion years later, the third day, etc. Now, after he creates plants on the third day, all these lifeforms have nothing to do until the next 'day', so guess what, they start evolving. Yay for evolution, yay for God. Alright, after that you start getting symbolic things, which I could go into, but I won't. I think that's going to be all for today.
Now, these are just the opinions of an eccentric. I don't know if they're right, and I don't really care. They just make the most sense to me. Just don't lynch me over'em, alright? (Wait a second... I'm the Baptist. Shouldn't -I- be doing the lynching? Hold on sec., I need to go get a rope to...... uh.... hang my laundry on! Yeah! That sounds good!) If you have any opinions, feel free to PM me, as always. Hell, I'll even take hate-mail from all you closed-minded simpletons out there! Uh-oh, looks like the torch-waving, angry mob found me. Gotta run!
-Andrew
Here I am, finally making a real update.
(What's this? He's actually going to say something about himself that's not self-deprecating or begging? Amazing!)
Yes. It is.
Anyway, first of all, I edited the poem, and the teacher really thinks I can win. The prize: A Border's Gift Certificate! Yay?... Ah well. Anyway, the only really bad thing that's happened to me recently was I hurt my ankle in Japanese class, and have trouble walking for the past couple days. Not too bad.It actually gave me an excuse to hop around on one foot all day.
Alright, now for the serious part. My Faith vs. Science rant.
Now, as I've said before on this board, I am a Baptist Christian. I come from a strong Baptist family. I am strong in my faith. But I'm also a scientist. Now, some people might say, "But Andrew, how can you be both? They're opposites of eachother." I tell them, "But how can you be so closed minded?" I believe in the book of Genesis. I also believe in Darwinism. And the Big Bang. I believe that God is in control of everything. And yet, I also believe in Chaos Theory. And (to an extent, but that has nothing to do with this) the Quantum.
Allow me to explain. About the book of Genesis. The whole Seven Days story. First of all, this is the creation of the Universe we're talking about. Time did not exist yet. But, let's assume that that came with the "Heavens and the Earth". Now, just because it says "seven days" does not mean that it took seven rotations of the earth. Seven days to God, and seven days to men, are two different things. (Now I'm gonna tie this all together) In the first day for [b]Him[/i], he created the Universe by concentrating an infinite amount of energy, into an infinitely small space, until it exploded, sending incomprehensible amounts of mass and energy into the void. Then, a couple billion Solar-cycles later, he hits his second day, and does his thing. Another couple billion years later, the third day, etc. Now, after he creates plants on the third day, all these lifeforms have nothing to do until the next 'day', so guess what, they start evolving. Yay for evolution, yay for God. Alright, after that you start getting symbolic things, which I could go into, but I won't. I think that's going to be all for today.
Now, these are just the opinions of an eccentric. I don't know if they're right, and I don't really care. They just make the most sense to me. Just don't lynch me over'em, alright? (Wait a second... I'm the Baptist. Shouldn't -I- be doing the lynching? Hold on sec., I need to go get a rope to...... uh.... hang my laundry on! Yeah! That sounds good!) If you have any opinions, feel free to PM me, as always. Hell, I'll even take hate-mail from all you closed-minded simpletons out there! Uh-oh, looks like the torch-waving, angry mob found me. Gotta run!
-Andrew