hey boys! it's been a week since i've seen kobe and lincoln and i miss you two terribly. i probably won't see you til next weekend. you're spending some extra time with your dad before he leaves for three weeks. abel, you, little ornery bear, are fast asleep finally. whew. this has been a hard week of pulling you down off of things and begging with you to stop changing the channel on the tv and trying to pull all kinds of things out of your already strong hands. you have been one busy boy so i have been one tired mama. i LOVE my life. i'm not being sarcastic either. but this is not why i'm writing this tonight. my friend jacci asked me this week exactly what i believe concerning evolution/creation. this was my response. even though it has pretty much become accepted that evolution is true and creation is not even taught as another option, i believe that neither one is provable in terms of our human need for something we can see, hear, touch and taste. funny how our sense of experiencing things is so limited and worldly and yet we use these senses as proof of other-worldly things. proof to me is that perfection doesn't happen because of things crashing into other things accidentally putting planets in perfect alignment. God's gentle and patient hands placing the planets at just the right spacing and the right angle, going at just the right speed is the only rational explanation to me. i am just a simple girl but i do understand that if any of the planets were even just the teensiest off then all of them would have crashed into each other before life even had a chance to develop on this planet. everyone who lives on this earth has to see that we have never witnessed things crashing into each other and forming perfect anything. it just causes big messes everywhere. perfection is done on purpose, purposefully placed. i could go on and on about other things in this world that have been made in perfection that just can't happen by accident.
i also believe that we have evolved. we are certainly not the same as our oldest ancestors. i don't think those ancestors were apes. i think everyone and everything has to evolve over time to adapt to the changes in the world or else it dies away. duh. we are so much taller now than the humans even just 200 years ago. i can imagine there are lot of other differences in the humans from 2000 or even 10000 years ago. while scientists can point to evolutions occurring within species, they have never witnessed something changing from one species to a whole other species. what doesn't make sense to me is they come up with all kinds of different bones and claim these bones prove our evolution from apes to man. i just don't buy it. how do they know that set of bones wasn't some misshaped person? we have all seen pictures of men that people would consider "freaks of nature". (i hate this term. no one is a freak.) i just don't think it's a wise conclusion to take one set of bones and build a whole way of life and theory of the world around it. i believe what the Bible says that God created man in His image. i don't believe that image was an ape.
this brings me to carbon dating. carbon dating is the process they generally use to determine the age of things, especially the world. sometimes it's been right and other times it's been proved wrong. yet now they give it as proof of how old stuff is all the time. since it's so unreliable, i pretty much don't place a lot of value in the carbon dating "proofs". the Bible says to God a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like day. so when the Bible talks about the days of creation, who knows what that was like. maybe each "day" was a thousand years. maybe each "day" was 30 minutes. i don't think it really matters. what matters is that God made this world. He made the heavens. He made the animals and plants. He made man. i don't really care how long it took. i only care that He loved us so much He took time to create this miracle of life. once again i find myself with no word to describe what this does to me. it wasn't that long ago that science thought this world was flat among many other theories that have long since passed as ridiculous. but God has stayed the same. so i'm going to stick with Him. i pray you all know and love our Father who not only created the beginnings of this place but also each and every one of us who is special enough to be here. don't just sit there and accept anything taught you as truth. go out there and do your research. climb the tallest mountain. sit by the ocean. lay down in a field of flowers and let the Teacher hold class with you in the midst of his amazing creations.