At the Feet of Jesus

Creation Science in the public classroom is something many evangelical Christians have been pushing for these days. I am a creationist myself, yet I can't help but believe that my fellow Christians are going about things the wrong way.

First, creationism specifically refutes evolution as described in Sir Charles Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Contrary to popular believe, creationists believe and agree with the idea of natural selection by environmental variables using genetic mutations. Creationists do not believe that one species can evolve into another.

Having said that, I am concerned by the effort being put forth to teach creation science in public schools. I would ask my fellow Christians, do you really want public schools to be teaching your children the bible? These are the same folks who brought us evolution by means of playing the "I can't see/hear you" game. Heck, how many cults have come about using the same bible we use? No, public teachers teaching out of the bible is not really the direction we should be going.

I believe the real goal should be to stop teaching evolution as fact. Its simple really. There is plenty of young earth science that doesn't even attach itself to the bible. When you get down to it, teaching evolution is teaching religion to begin with. The solution is not to add more religion. I am well aware that evolution is so intertwined in public education that it will probably never be separated. I am a realist. In many places in text books, evolutionary theory is presented as fact. When things get sketchy, we are told "no one know," when, in fact, theories exist. The problem is that those theories discount evolution.

How about we simply bring the science back to science? We call observable and reproducible data fact and unprovable theories a hypothesis. Its pretty simple, isn't it?

If you have been under a rock the past for years, or (more likely) are not a complete geek, you may not have heard that the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) is due to be powered up for the first time tonight. The LHC is a 17 mile long, VERY expensive toy designed to accelerate particles into each other and observe the results. One of the possible effects is for it to create miniature black holes, which have an even smaller hypothetical chance to drop to the center of the earth and turn it inside out.

Lucky for us, Stephen Hawking discovered Hawking Radiation and theorizes that such black holes would be very unstable and actually die out long before they have the posibility to do any damage. Stephen Hawking is our modern day Einstein, so while there are some people that are nervous the world is going to be sucked into a black hole tonight when the LHC is powered up for the first experiment, it is rather unlikely to happen. Even more important, we know that Jesus will come before we destroy ourselves, so we should be just fine.

So why are the scientists doing all this? There is a fundamental problem with modern physics. To over-simplify, we are missing most of our matter. The mathematics don't add up. The experiment will attempt to locate a theoretical particle called the "Higgs Boson" particle, also known as the "God Particle." If this particle is detected, it may be the answer to the mystery of all the missing matter in our universe.

I was excited to find that Stephen Hawking agrees with me that we will not find the Higgs Boson particle. In fact, he put $100 on that. Hawking states in his book, The Universe in a Nutshell, that he believes in a Creator because evolution and the big bang only go so far before the laws of physics break down and no longer apply.  He hopes the experiment fails to find the Higgs Boson particle because the idea of starting over and taking a different approach to the problem is appealing to him.

My reasoning differs. I think we won't find the Higgs Boson particle because Colossians 1:15-17 tells us that Jesus created all things, and in Him, all things consist. The original word for "consist" is "sunistemi," which means to cohere or pack together[^]. I have always enjoyed the science puzzles our Creator has left for us. I wonder if perhaps the solution to this particular puzzle is, litterally, Jesus.

"He was in the beginning with God.  All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made."
-- John 1:2-3

I will be excited to see the results of tonight's experiment. I certainly could be wrong. There is no passage of the bible that says "I am the way, the truth, and the Higgs Boson particle," but there is no verse that doesn't. God has created the Universe His way, not ours, and I am excited to get a closer look at the way He did it.

I thought McCains Britney and Paris attack ad several weeks back was rather weak in its attack on Obama's celebrity status, even though his supporters and (of course) the media made a big deal about it. Its kind of funny that no effort is required to make fun of Obama; he does it himself.


The latest news is Obama's temple stage. The 80,000 people in the stadium is funny enough, but it looks like they are going all out with the set.


This brings to mind something that bugged me quite a bit last December. Huckabee (my early pick) was lambasted by the media for his subtle statement of faith in the form of a cross on his Christmas message. A cross on a Christmas message? How dare he! Well, it was actually a window pane. Strategically placed or not, I was oblivious to it the first several times I watched the video.


Obama, on the other hand, came out with his own ad in front of a glowing cross at an extravagant church, missing only a halo over his head. No one seemed to bat an eye.
 
I'm not about to scream liberal media bias, but I will point out that the media is much more concerned with ratings than honest journalism. How can we fault them for following Obama the Rock Star over John McCain the old guy? War heroes are so 1950's. Liberal socialist fluffy universalists are todays trend.

I'm not an Obama supporter, but I am also a bit disappointed with McCain. One thing I DO like about the McCain camp is some of the great smears they put out. The latest one seemed to be ready to go before Biden was even announced as Obama's running mate. Makes me wonder if they had similar videos ready to go for some of the other possible picks.


Its funny, watching the debates last year, many of the candidates on both sides were pretty good about not slinging too much mud. I figured it was an effort not to count themselves out as VP in case they didn't make it. Biden didn't say anything too damaging, but he gave the McCain camp some great ammunition anyway.

Here goes nothing.

I'll be using this journal to post some random thoughts, studies, and news items I find interesting. I've been posting bible studies to my personal site (when I get around to it), but would like to make the process easier and allow for comments. I'll get some content up eventually (in theory). Until then, feel free to check out my personal site at http://nick.laprell.org.

A little bit about myself.

I am a Web Developer by trade and a geek at heart. More importantly, I'm a husband and father to a wonderful girl named Brenda and a cute little 13 month old boy named Wesley respectively. Most importantly, I was saved about 2 and a half years ago after having bounced from the New Age movement to Atheism previously. Most surprising to me has been how reasonable God is, having previously though the idea of God was nuts.

I now believe a literal interpretation of the bible. It is useless unless we can trust it, and there is more than enough evidence to trust it. Yes, this includes a 6 day creation, which is not nearly as crazy as it sounds.

So that is that. With any luck, I'll actually make it back semi-frequently enough to make this at least a little bit interesting.