My Contemporary Biology teacher believes that he is a very funny man.
He is not.
Perhaps, however, I am biased because I find him to be very offensive. Specifically, I find his blatant disrespect for Christianity offensive. He did warn us in the first class that if we were "religious" he would probably offend us--you might say this justifies his behavior because we were forewarned. I, however, see it as an excuse for him to be rude and opinionated.
This man does not simply teach evolution and the big bang because are the "scientifically accepted" theories. He teaches these things and then goes on to make fun of those who believe in creationism. And it is truly infuriating.
He is a small man, one might even call him puny. Wears his pants too high and has large glasses. Basically, I could kill him easily, which makes it even harder to sit there in class and allow him to insult what is my truth, the very essence of what I believe in.
Do people honestly believe that there just so happened to be a giant explosion of random gases in the universe, which created the planet, which was full of random gases, that, over a billion years, converted into proteins which somehow turned into a cell and that all of the world came from that cell? And not only this, but we happen to be just the right distance from the sun so that we don't freeze or burn, and we happen to have just enough gravity to keep us down without imploding. My, we humans are quite lucky, aren't we?
I realize that this is a relatively pointless entry, but I feel much better having written it. My only wish is that I could learn this information that the university requires me to know without being insulted in the process.
I also find myself saddened that those in the class who don't know Jesus are hearing falsities about who they are and where the came from. My prayer is that they would find the truth--that we aren't all the result of a spontaneous explosion; that we were created for a purpose by a loving God; that we aren't simply organisms who are born and die, as science would have them believe.
What I love, and am so thankful for is that we have all the answers we will ever need on earth in the bible. I don't have to look for scientific evidence and make a hypothesis and perform an experiment and whatnot. God has given us the answers...all we have to do is believe them.
Genesis 1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness. god called the light "day," and He called the darkness "night." Evening came, and then morning: the first day.
Then God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters, separating water from water." So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above the expanse. And it was so. God called the expanse "sky." Evening came, and then morning: the second day.
Then God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so. God called the dry land "earth," and He called the gathering of the water "seas." And God saw that it was good. then god said, "let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds." And it was so. the earth brought forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it, according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. Evening came, and then morning: the third day.
Then God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night. They will serve as signs for festivals and for days and years. they will be lights in the expanse of the sky to provide light on the earth." And it was so. God made the two great lights--the greater light to have dominion over the day and the lesser light on the earth, to dominate the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. Evening came and then morning: the fourth day.
Then God said, "Let the water swarm with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." So God created the large sea-creatures and every living creature that moves and swarms in the water, according to their kinds. He also created every winged bird according to its kind. and God saw that it was good. So god blessed them, "Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters of the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth." Evening came, and then morning: the fifth day.
Then God said, "Let the earth produce living creatures according to their kinds: Livestock, creatures that crawl, and the wildlife of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so. So God made the wildlife of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and creatures that crawl on the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, all the earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth.
So God created man in His own image;
He created him in the image of God;
He created them male and female.
God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. rule the fish of the sea, and the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth." God also said, "Look, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the surface of the entire earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. This food will be for you, for all the wildlife of the earth, for every bird of the sky, and for every creature that crawls on the earth--everything having the breath of life in it. I have given every green plant for food." and it was so. God saw all that He had made, and it was very good. Evening came, and then morning: the sixth day.
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