Coming home from school today I was just a bit frazzled. I was very tired... mostly physically tired, but also tired of the power-points and the people. We've just started our sixth week, and we've got ten more to go after that. Yay.
So after snacking on some lunch, I watched the first DVD of astronomy (creation/evolution debate) about the planets that my parents sent me. Lots of interesting facts about the planets and their moons... and how all evolutionary theories about origins (requiring billions of years) come up hallow when looking at the conditions of the solar system. Biggest problems lie in planet's magnetism, young appearance, presence of certain substances and physical attributes. It went over facts about each planet and all the main moons... and wow, what pictures. One of the things I love most about the solar system is the total solar eclipse. How our moon would be positioned perfectly to block out the sun, just so we could see and study the sun's corona. Think for a moment about the chances of that happening without planning. Talk about a witness in the sky! It felt wonderful to think about something other than myself and my own situation for a while.
Then I took a three-hour nap. Boy, do I feel better... and I hope I can sleep again tonight. When I got up, my brand new German lessons from Rosetta Stone had arrived. So I set it up and did the first lesson. While loading, I read more in Starship Troopers, finishing a chapter (it's right when he makes it "over the hump" in boot camp - a meaningful moment). And I listened to the entire book of Romans while blogging about the weekend (that I'd been too tired to worry about before).
So, gosh... I'm feeling much better. And I opened that sweet Jacquie Lawson valentine from my Darling... Friday can't come fast enough.
Jw
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Monday, February 13, 2012
Monday, October 12, 2009
Hello Again
And Happy Columbus Day!
Well, this was a rather unusual weekend.
Friday after work (and after lunch - which was steak! boy did that taste good!) I went and got my bike pumped up (and bought a bike pump - so I don't have to do this again) at a bike shop in Redmond. Previously I only had my little hand pump, and that really doesn't work on a regular basis. It's really only supposed to be for emergencies. So sometime soon I can go biking again! Yay!
Just a block away from the bike shop is a neat little store that I hadn't been to in a long time... McDonald's Books. I was really there only to poke around and look, but I ended up taking a couple paperbacks home with me. :)
But the odd part was this conference that my parents are involved with. It has to do with promoting Creation science... it's something that I believe in and agree with, but also something I am not all that interested in. I prefer history and philosophy to geology and biology. My parents are science folks though. They like that sort of thing. I remember once doing science in grade school and getting frustrated at studying "how the weather works" again. I remember I told my Dad, "I understand how clouds are made... but why are there clouds?" It must have been fun to raise me.
After helping Mom set up the snacks she brought, I raced outside to go look at the glorious sunset. I drove a ways in order to see if I could get a glimpse of Puget Sound (this was near Everett). After making a few turns I landed in a pretty swank neighborhood and gasped as I saw the Sound. It was all lit up in rosy pink from the magnificent reflection from the acres of layered clouds of the same color. The dark purple Olympic mountains were jagged against the bright orange sky. I stayed there for 15 minutes watching as the colors quickly faded to lighter pinks and yellows before they disappeared all together.
SATURDAY, October 10:
After sleeping in a good deal, I spent the day at home all alone. I thought of cleaning the house, but I never did get further than cleaning out my own room. :) Got rid of some stuff I never use, moved stuff around so it's more accessible, and most importantly, vacuumed. I almost ran out of time to eat before heading to the U for the football game, but I did get a bowl of soup down along with some cut up portions of steak leftover from Friday - veggie soup is greatly improved with steak - and I made it there just in time for the first of the four places we play for fans before the game. The game itself started badly, quickly recovered well, then went to pieces in the third quarter and then miraculously finished with a totally unexpected win. From my position in the west end zone seating I could see the whole stadium jumping wildly in ripples down the rows, accompanied by the deafening roar from all sides. I've seen games like this one was turning out to be for six years now. We knew the drill... another humiliating, deflating defeat. But all of a sudden, we scored and then we intercepted; and we won. What?! What a night.
SUNDAY, October 11: "One Weed Too Many"
Now this was really odd... I set my alarm and got up early to go with my parents and the Fun Couple down to our friend's little visitor center/museum down by Mt. St. Helens. They are an elderly couple, and they needed some gardening help. Meg was busy with grading homework, so Jason and I had a lot of time to talk as we pulled up weeds. We did this pretty much all afternoon with a break for lunch (I brought the last of the soup!) and again for dinner... it was then that I finally gave up the diet for lack of soup. I slept off and on all the way back home (2+ hours) and I think I must have slept funny on my right wrist... it was either that or the weeding or both that caused my wrist to still hurt a little today.
Monday, Today:
Busy, busy, busy at work, and generally pretty happy. I dreamt about Remember WENN last night (for no particular reason), about Betty telling Celia about Victor during the 3rd season, and I spent the morning being very, very glad that I am friends with you folks that read this. I feel fortunate and blessed to know you.
Jp
Well, this was a rather unusual weekend.
Friday after work (and after lunch - which was steak! boy did that taste good!) I went and got my bike pumped up (and bought a bike pump - so I don't have to do this again) at a bike shop in Redmond. Previously I only had my little hand pump, and that really doesn't work on a regular basis. It's really only supposed to be for emergencies. So sometime soon I can go biking again! Yay!
Just a block away from the bike shop is a neat little store that I hadn't been to in a long time... McDonald's Books. I was really there only to poke around and look, but I ended up taking a couple paperbacks home with me. :)
But the odd part was this conference that my parents are involved with. It has to do with promoting Creation science... it's something that I believe in and agree with, but also something I am not all that interested in. I prefer history and philosophy to geology and biology. My parents are science folks though. They like that sort of thing. I remember once doing science in grade school and getting frustrated at studying "how the weather works" again. I remember I told my Dad, "I understand how clouds are made... but why are there clouds?" It must have been fun to raise me.
After helping Mom set up the snacks she brought, I raced outside to go look at the glorious sunset. I drove a ways in order to see if I could get a glimpse of Puget Sound (this was near Everett). After making a few turns I landed in a pretty swank neighborhood and gasped as I saw the Sound. It was all lit up in rosy pink from the magnificent reflection from the acres of layered clouds of the same color. The dark purple Olympic mountains were jagged against the bright orange sky. I stayed there for 15 minutes watching as the colors quickly faded to lighter pinks and yellows before they disappeared all together.
SATURDAY, October 10:
After sleeping in a good deal, I spent the day at home all alone. I thought of cleaning the house, but I never did get further than cleaning out my own room. :) Got rid of some stuff I never use, moved stuff around so it's more accessible, and most importantly, vacuumed. I almost ran out of time to eat before heading to the U for the football game, but I did get a bowl of soup down along with some cut up portions of steak leftover from Friday - veggie soup is greatly improved with steak - and I made it there just in time for the first of the four places we play for fans before the game. The game itself started badly, quickly recovered well, then went to pieces in the third quarter and then miraculously finished with a totally unexpected win. From my position in the west end zone seating I could see the whole stadium jumping wildly in ripples down the rows, accompanied by the deafening roar from all sides. I've seen games like this one was turning out to be for six years now. We knew the drill... another humiliating, deflating defeat. But all of a sudden, we scored and then we intercepted; and we won. What?! What a night.
SUNDAY, October 11: "One Weed Too Many"
Now this was really odd... I set my alarm and got up early to go with my parents and the Fun Couple down to our friend's little visitor center/museum down by Mt. St. Helens. They are an elderly couple, and they needed some gardening help. Meg was busy with grading homework, so Jason and I had a lot of time to talk as we pulled up weeds. We did this pretty much all afternoon with a break for lunch (I brought the last of the soup!) and again for dinner... it was then that I finally gave up the diet for lack of soup. I slept off and on all the way back home (2+ hours) and I think I must have slept funny on my right wrist... it was either that or the weeding or both that caused my wrist to still hurt a little today.
Monday, Today:
Busy, busy, busy at work, and generally pretty happy. I dreamt about Remember WENN last night (for no particular reason), about Betty telling Celia about Victor during the 3rd season, and I spent the morning being very, very glad that I am friends with you folks that read this. I feel fortunate and blessed to know you.
Jp
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Statement of... Science
It may appear that I accepted the creation model, based on my belief in God.
But I reply... While I did grow up in a Christian home, I had natural doubts about God's existence and the truth of the gospel. Every person should consider what they believe and know why they believe it. But when I doubted, I also remembered the world. In looking at it, I am convinced that there is no other possibility for how it works other than it was created. It screams that it was designed. The tilt of the earth, the distance from the sun... the list goes on.
I believe in the creation model because it makes more sense than its evolutionary counterpart. Believing in God requires much less faith than believing in trillions of mutations and chance over unimaginable lengths of time.
As the psalmist put it, much more eloquently than I, "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the skies proclaim the works of his hands... There is no speech where their voice is not heard."
Jp
But I reply... While I did grow up in a Christian home, I had natural doubts about God's existence and the truth of the gospel. Every person should consider what they believe and know why they believe it. But when I doubted, I also remembered the world. In looking at it, I am convinced that there is no other possibility for how it works other than it was created. It screams that it was designed. The tilt of the earth, the distance from the sun... the list goes on.
I believe in the creation model because it makes more sense than its evolutionary counterpart. Believing in God requires much less faith than believing in trillions of mutations and chance over unimaginable lengths of time.
As the psalmist put it, much more eloquently than I, "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the skies proclaim the works of his hands... There is no speech where their voice is not heard."
Jp
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Angry & Annoyed
5/21/09
[PS... I added a link to a site that well describes how scientific theories cannot be proven... and then they make a stupid observation themselves, about how "creation scientists are not talking about scientific knowledge". Sigh. I wonder how evolutionary scientists are different? Since they take their presupposed (non-scientific) ideas about the world (such as... there is no God) and apply them to their scientific theories. Hmm... sounds the same to me... People just think they're better because they are assuming and trusting in natural processes from the past rather than God. We can't observe either (it's historical science)... so what's the difference?]
Comments are welcome.
From Yesterday:
How long will it take people to realize that Historical Science (like the new "missing link" found yesterday in Germany) can never be Empirical Science?
Someone asked me once what it would take for me to be persuaded to believe the theory of macro-evolution. They wondered if a "proven missing link" would do it. I replied with something like, "I'd have to be shown how the theory works on a detailed level." For example, learning how mutations could make Dinosaurs take flight; how they could take a monkey and give it a soul and a conscience, not to mention a completely different backbone and all the other differences we have. And let's not forget the earth-shattering complexity of a mere cell, or about explaining how everything started in the first place. The very idea requires a limitless amount of earth history, and that is one thing we all know is surely false.
No, I think speculation about a single fossil animal will not help me forget the glaring and gaping holes in a very shaky theory. I will not be taken in for worrying about sticking out. Thank the Lord I am not in my old physiology class today. I think I would have been bombarded with unclear thinking. I was nearly laughed out of the 300 person classroom once for trying to explain and defend the other side of the story when it was being miss-represented. Discrimination? Well, the Lord did tell us to rejoice. So, thank you, classmates and professor; it was an honor (said un-sarcastically, but with a twinkle in the eye). God bless that one girl who thanked me afterwords... surely she was heaven sent.
Oh, and once in a discussion during Oceanography class, a student claimed that there was a full set of transitional forms that had already been discovered. They were taught this and saw the picture in their textbook in high school, so it must be true, right?
And people are calling this "missing link" amazing new evidence! BROTHER!
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: It's all about a person's perspective on history.
An idea: an infinitely intelligent mind created infinitely complex beings. I was amazed in Physiology how much we still don't understand about ourselves. What does not make sense is the idea that science is abandoned with this belief. On the contrary! Science itself begins to make sense when considering that everything was done with a plan and on purpose!
(sigh)
Jp
[PS... I added a link to a site that well describes how scientific theories cannot be proven... and then they make a stupid observation themselves, about how "creation scientists are not talking about scientific knowledge". Sigh. I wonder how evolutionary scientists are different? Since they take their presupposed (non-scientific) ideas about the world (such as... there is no God) and apply them to their scientific theories. Hmm... sounds the same to me... People just think they're better because they are assuming and trusting in natural processes from the past rather than God. We can't observe either (it's historical science)... so what's the difference?]
Comments are welcome.
From Yesterday:
How long will it take people to realize that Historical Science (like the new "missing link" found yesterday in Germany) can never be Empirical Science?
Someone asked me once what it would take for me to be persuaded to believe the theory of macro-evolution. They wondered if a "proven missing link" would do it. I replied with something like, "I'd have to be shown how the theory works on a detailed level." For example, learning how mutations could make Dinosaurs take flight; how they could take a monkey and give it a soul and a conscience, not to mention a completely different backbone and all the other differences we have. And let's not forget the earth-shattering complexity of a mere cell, or about explaining how everything started in the first place. The very idea requires a limitless amount of earth history, and that is one thing we all know is surely false.
No, I think speculation about a single fossil animal will not help me forget the glaring and gaping holes in a very shaky theory. I will not be taken in for worrying about sticking out. Thank the Lord I am not in my old physiology class today. I think I would have been bombarded with unclear thinking. I was nearly laughed out of the 300 person classroom once for trying to explain and defend the other side of the story when it was being miss-represented. Discrimination? Well, the Lord did tell us to rejoice. So, thank you, classmates and professor; it was an honor (said un-sarcastically, but with a twinkle in the eye). God bless that one girl who thanked me afterwords... surely she was heaven sent.
Oh, and once in a discussion during Oceanography class, a student claimed that there was a full set of transitional forms that had already been discovered. They were taught this and saw the picture in their textbook in high school, so it must be true, right?
And people are calling this "missing link" amazing new evidence! BROTHER!
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: It's all about a person's perspective on history.
An idea: an infinitely intelligent mind created infinitely complex beings. I was amazed in Physiology how much we still don't understand about ourselves. What does not make sense is the idea that science is abandoned with this belief. On the contrary! Science itself begins to make sense when considering that everything was done with a plan and on purpose!
(sigh)
Jp
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