Why? What if God set the big bang in motion and knew all the laws of nature and thus predetermined everything including everything that has come since and will come after?
Then when he had to explain it to people 2000 years ago he’s like “Hmmm I don’t think these dudes are going to understand DNA and physics why don’t I just tell them a story so they get the basic point that I made everything”?
But whatever.
Ping, folks, to an astute comment on an article -- posted by FR's resident YEC-spammer -- that purports to declare our belief position to be "incompatible"...
No time to comment further -- or, even read the full article.
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I'm off to direct an archaeological survey crew that is investigating an area that
- is the site of a vanished 1850's town that "had plenty of saloons and whorehouses and a racetrack -- but never had a church or school"
- is now a bunch of lake homes on a bluff overlooking a beautiful natural lake fed by a "delicious", big spring (so described by the joint survey crew that surveyed the TX-LA boundary -- that passes only a couple of hundred yards east of the lake) in 1841
- that, because it was in a jurisdictionally-confused "no-man's land" near a disputed (until 1841) boundary, became the refuge for all sorts of outlaws and near-lawless folk
- was the northern "head of navigation" on Caddo Lake during the heyday of the cotton-shipping steamboat era (competitor to more-famous Jefferson, TX)
- is the locus of several significant PREhistoric sites. (I'll be assessing and photographing the landowners' collections of artifacts.)
- is a nexus of Indian trails -- some later used by Spanish and other immigrants -- as shown on numerous old maps
- is right across the bayou/lake from "Timber Hill" -- the last major Caddo indian village in East Texas (where Viana -- see below -- almost started an American-Spanish war by cutting down and confiscating the American flag given to Caddo chief Dehahuit by Freeman)
- may be the site where Captain Viana's Spanish army detachment camped ("near the Caddo Village") during his pursuit of President Jefferson's "Freeman-Custis Expedition" (southern counterpart to Louis & Clark) that was exploring (by boat) up the Red River. (We have found a cache of .69 cal military "Brown Bess" musket balls there...)
- is the site of the early Masonic lodge where my wife's GGG-grandfather and Charles Ames (designer of our 1861 County Courthouse -- now beginning a full THC-funded restoration) were charter members
- is almost certainly the site where my own "family's black sheep" GGG-Grandfather died "in some sort of horse-racing scrape down by Caddo Lake"... [GRIN]
I won't be able to do much "boonie-tromping" surveying, myself, but I'll put a sandal on my gout-plagued left foot and visit with the landowners to arrange permission for the crew to survey their properties. (The crew calls my activities, "showing the flag", because I wear my cap with the Texas Historical Commission badge and hand out my Texas Archeological Steward cards to authenticate us to the landowners... )
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Ain't "retirement" great?!? {BIG GRIN]
Hope to return later to a lively discussion of this "professor's" editorial screed...
Enjoy!