Here We Go

I'm going to have to start with this, because I just read two articles in the last five minutes on more or less the same thing -- they're listed in my shared headlines box over there on the right if you're reading this entry today or tomorrow -- and I have to get it out.

There is religion and there is science. They are two separate things, but they are not incompatible. However, claiming that your religious belief -- whatever it is -- is science is not smart. It is ignorance, in the sense that you are ignoring something. Listen:

I worked with a man for several years who taught Anatomy and Advanced Placement Biology. He was an incredibly good teacher. I also knew him to be a very devout and faithful Catholic person, and I asked him once how he kept his religion and his science from contradicting each other. He smiled. He said that all the evidence of evolution was clear, and that scientists could study it and see it happening every day. There was no question about evolution or the age of the earth: these were scientific, proven facts. However, he continued, evolution is such a complex and beautiful process that it could only have come from the mind of God. How could anything else explain how evolution came to be? As for the story of creation in the Bible, he thought it was a beautiful story, and explained -- using terms that an earlier, unsophisticated society could understand -- exactly what had happened. Did God create the world in seven days? He smiled again. The word "day", he believed, was used in the story because it would have been difficult for people then to comprehend the amount of time that was really involved, and there were no words to explain it then. "Day", he felt, was a metaphor for what really happened, which was evolution as science describes it, and all because of God.

Makes sense to me.


Okay, on to life. Turns out I will only be working two days this week -- Monday and Thursday -- because we have Tuesday and Wednesday off, and I'm taking off Friday to take R for a medical test. (Not a big one -- I've had it twice this year -- but requires a driver, and perhaps a mommy to hover.) She's feeling much better, actually, and has a new theory, which I won't mention until we hear from the doctor, since all former theories have been WRONG.

I haven't spoken to my sister for a few days because she was away at a parents' weekend or something for Little K, and although I think she's home now, I tried a little while ago and there was no answer. But sometimes she just doesn't answer. On the other hand, I believe the bride and groom are due home from their honeymoon today, so she could be over there, too. Anyway, I'll try her again shortly.

So that's my story, folks. I slept much better so far this weekend, so I don't feel like I'm totally dragging. Always a nice thing.


WATCHING DOC HOLLYWOOD :: ENTRY #1865
READING: Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! by Fannie Flagg