6 page paper between me and the morning. But I’ve got a thunderstorm and black tea on my side.
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Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is error, the truth;
Where there is doubt, the faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.
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http://arkencounter.com/blog/2012/04/13/land-purchased/
This makes me sad and angry. A 25 million dollar project to create a life size version of Noah’s ark. This will be another tourist monstrosity off some highway in Kentucky. 4 millions dollars raised already. The people behind it, “Answers in Genesis”, are a group of fundamentalists that spend billions of dollars in advertising and propaganda to assert “creation science”. They guise it as doing God’s work and call the ark a “witness tool” while conning people into giving their money to a stupid, fruitless cause. John 13:35 has something to say about a better witness tool: love.
The amount of press this ark venture gets is unfortunate, but not surprising. Christians demonstrating God’s love every day through social justice, community building, and medical missions get no media coverage. The dumb, greedy ones are who we see on the news. Think how many children could be fed, how many bibles could be translated and printed, how many lives could be improved in the name of Jesus with 25 million dollars.
It’s unfortunate that so many Christians are afraid of things like knowledge and science. They are in actuality minimizing God by it. If we truly believe God to be who He says He is, then He would not be limited by reason, but supported by it. A number of viable options exist that harmonize the origins of our planet and life and the bible including theistic evolution and progressive creationism, but some people choose to hold dogmatically to young earth creationism despite loads of evidence against it. I hope that people can see through the fog of so many Christians poorly representing Christ to the light that is God - perfectly loving, just and intelligent.
Fossilized remains of a 150 million-year-old squid were so well-preserved that scientists were able to draw a picture of it using its own ink.
The remains of a Belemnotheutis antiquus were found by paleontologists during a dig in Wiltshire, England.
