Oh my.

The past TWO weeks we have been talking about evolution in biology, and my biology teacher says, "I really don't understand why people get so offended by it". Well let me answer that one for you, when you've lived your whole life believing God created this world, you are getting a slap in the face when you get to biology class. Someone in my class gave the answer of, "I think it's pride, Christians do not want to admit they came from a primitive species." For me, it's not a pride issue, it's the fact that science NEVER shows both arguments to how the world came into existence.

I'm an open minded person, so i like to listen to other's beliefs. It's just that when people insult my beliefs, that's going a little too far. Last night at church we talked about Evolution as well. Which is kind of ironic, considering we're talking about that at school.

Anyways, Pastor Jeff talked about evolution as i just said, but the question, "If God created everything, then who created God?" came up. I wasn't really sure how he was going to answer that, because in all honesty i had never questioned that before. But when it was brought up, it had me thinking. Pastor Jeff said this, "I'm going to try to give my best explanation, and I can't even wrap my mind around it, so I don't expect you to. God exists outside of time, therefore he has always existed and always will." I think that's a good description, of course he went more into depth with that, but that was just the jist of the response.

In Philosophy we've talked about how time is a manmade concept, and we can never possibly step outside of that concept. Even if we got rid of clocks, calendars, age requirements, we would still have the sense of time passing. Wake up in the morning, go to sleep at night. We would still have this sense that some time has passed. It's impossible to get rid of this concept, so yes it is extremely hard to wrap your mind around the fact that God exists outside of time. Throwing in more of Philosophy, Kant says that we are born with filters- space and time. He says that we can never take off those filters. So how can we say that there isnt a whole other world out there that we cant see through our filters? Take for example, sharks. Sharks see energy, that's how they know that something is still alive. We can't see that. Snakes just see a bunch of moving lines. Every specie of animal has a different filter. So it's reasonable to say that something exists outside of our filters.

That's why faith drives Christianity. In the book sophie's world it says, "If Christianity appealed to our reasoning and our logic, it wouldn't be what it is today." Which is true, Christians don't sit and wonder at exactly what moment God created the world, what time he decided to create trees. Christianity isn't science class, it isn't cut and dry. It's full of mystery and wonder.

So I mean, I am most definitly not trying to bash anyone's beliefs on evolution, just simply stating my take on it.


p.s.
carbon dating is a load of poo.
They took a dollar bill printed in 1974, carbon dating "proved" it to be 500 years old.