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Hey guys, im running out of ideas for a blog series. ill take the first few ideas i get as a reply to this post.

Origins Explained

This is an essay i wrote to answer some questions about Origins that a friend asked me about.

I noticed your recent Tumblr post, and thought you might benefit to some insight and guidance I’ve received over the years. First and foremost, let me begin with stating my beliefs on the issue, then I’ll break down why I believe each part to be both biblically and scientifically accurate. I believe that God created the universe and all that is in it Ex Nihilo in six 24-hour days and rested for one 24-hour day. I also believe that modern man is a fallen form of the perfect being that God created on the sixth day of creation, and therefore has undergone no form of natural evolution. Ok, now I’ll break it down piece by piece.

First, I believe that God created the earth Ex Nihilo in six 24-hour days (you took spec mind, so I won’t bother explaining what Ex Nihilo means). The notion that you brought attention to in your post is academically referred to as the Day-Age Theory. In a nutshell, this theory claims that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth through the process of Darwinian evolution. All this does is replace the secular “big bang theory” with God speaking into existence the “ingredients” to make life, then let the universe form itself through evolutionary processes. In essence, it just makes Day-Age theorists look “intelligent” to secular evolutionists by agreeing with them on 98% of the evolutionary theory.

I know what you’re thinking now. Your saying to yourself “Widdy, doesn’t the Bible say that a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like a day?” my answer, absolutely. This idea comes from both Psalm 90:4 and 2 Peter 3:8, and has been misconstrued by the Day-Agers as validation for their claim. What you need to do is look at the whole passage of Psalm 90 and 2 Peter 3. The first passage states that God can do whatever he wills, the 4^th verse is just there to say, “God’s mind doesn’t even work like ours, dude! In fact even time doesn’t restrain him, he invented time bro.” The second was written as a response to when people were being whiny and saying, “Jesus promised to come back soon, and he lied, wah, wah, wah.” Peter was telling them, “Guys, listen. Jesus will come back in His time, not yours. Jesus, because He’s God, doesn’t work under human time constraints”. This New Testament passage was actually referencing Psalm 90. Sort of a “hey guys, remember what David said in Psalms?” Neither of these passages has anything to do with Genesis 1, they both simply remind us that God is above natural laws of time and space.

Another reason, is that in ancient languages (the original Bible was written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine (“Common” or “Middle”) Greek); words had many more meanings than they do today. One word could have 20 or 30 different connotations, depending on how often it was used. The cool thing is that the ancient word “day” in Genesis 1, is the same exact meaning used when the Bible says “the great flood lasted 40 days” or “Jesus rose on the third day”. And no one would argue that Jesus was buried for longer than 3 real days. Same ancient word= same real meaning. When the Bible was translated into western languages, the best they could come up with was a generic word “day” to stand for all the many meanings. That’s why when theology students want to really understand scripture, they read it in Hebrew or Greek so they can get the real meaning of a verse.

Now let’s move on to the theory of evolution itself, and whether or not God used any form of evolutionary process. Through my studies on this question I can firmly say that God did not use any form of evolution during his creation. Why, you ask, do I believe this to be true? It all comes down to two reasons, 1) basic scientific principle and 2) the nature of God. Let’s start with basic scientific principle. The first law of thermodynamics states that matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed in form. An example would be a campfire. Wood contains potential (stored) energy. When ignited, that potential energy is changed into heat energy, which is manifested as light, etc. when the fire burns out, it’s not because the fire has no more energy, it’s because the energy which now exists is in an unusable form, which is the premise of the second law of thermodynamics.

The second law states that energy constantly moved from a state of order (more usable energy) to a state of disorder (less usable energy). Let’s look at this in two practical examples, an abandoned house, and a cup of coffee. First, we’ll look at the house. Imagine an old abandoned house that isn’t being taken care of. Over the years the house will start to look worse and worse until one day it will just collapse. This is a visual example. The cup of coffee is an invisible, but highly noticeable example. Let’s say you get a nice hot cup of coffee and let it sit on a table. No matter what you put the coffee in (thermos, insulated cup, etc.) it will eventually get cold because the heat energy, in the cup will progress towards a state of disorder, or less heat.

Ok, enough of a science lesson. How does this explain evolution? The answer, it doesn’t. That’s the point, in order for evolution to work in the early stages, the cosmic soup must increase in the level of order (useful energy), in order to be able to become, single celled organisms, then plankton, then fish, amphibians, reptiles, etc. through all the stages until man is formed. In essence evolution (which is claimed to be “real science”)is proven to be impossible by scientific law itself. See how crazy that sounds, that’s like me saying, “I have a theory that man can jump off a building and fly, then I get a bunch of people to say, ‘yes, we believe Widdy’s findings to be accurate’”. Then I write a few books, and go on a lecture tour entitled “Man Can Fly!”. This of course is dumb because no one has been able to prove my point, ever. The reason no one has is because science has ruled it impossible.  I know this example sounds really childish, but think about it. There are people in the world who have PhDs and believe that the unproven theory of evolution is fact.

Now we’ll move onto how God’s nature disproves evolution. The basic idea of evolution is that something is not “good enough” so it evolves so that it can become “better”. Now think of the nature of God. If God really used evolution, then He was saying, I’m going to make something that’s kind of “just ok”, then after a while I’ll correct the imperfections until it becomes the best it can possibly be.” Do you really think that the almighty creator of the universe, who flooded the world, who parted the Red Sea, came to earth to die, rose from the dead, blinded Paul, saved all of us from our sins and holds us in the palm of his hand created the vast cosmos with his voice then said, “well, I guess that’ll have to do, I guess I’ll fix it later”? I think not.

Now I know that you had mentioned the idea of “micro-evolution” in your post as well. So let me clarify that. Micro-evolution has been misconstrued over the years, and should be more accurately put as “variety within a species”. This means that within a species there is room for difference. Take dogs for example, there are hundreds of breeds of dogs, but no matter how many different types of dogs you breed together, you will never get a cat, ever. Another example of variety is the Zedonk, this is the cross breed of a donkey and a zebra. They are strong like a donkey, but fast like a zebra, best of both worlds, but there is one bad thing about them. They’re sterile. That’s right, no babies! The only way to get a zedonk is to take a 100% donkey and breed it with a 100% zebra. Then a Zedonk is born. You can even make a zedonk of the opposite gender, but the only way to make a third zedonk is to breed a third zebra to a third donkey. In essence, evolution is impossible because there is only so far that a species can go before God given physical barriers say, “Nope, can’t happen”. A species can change color, size, and abilities, heck some animals can even change gender if there is a shortage of either gender in the species. In the end, all of those “different” members are always the same species. Look at humans even, short, tall, fat, thin, blonde, brunette, redheads, black hair, curly hair, straight hair, white, black, Asian, Latino, Native American, and all the different cultural norms and behaviors. No matter what happens they will never stop being human.

Ok, I’m done, if you have any questions or I didn’t answer one of yours, or I’m unclear in my explanation, let me know. I’d love to explain this more if needed. I hope this helps.

Weekend

I spent the weekend with a bunch of my friends, it was super awesome. i got to know a bunch of people i thought i knew pretty well even better, theres even one girl who i really think im starting to fall for. we’ll see what happens.

Gettin’ Down on Friday

Last night, i got to spend about 3 and a half hours talking to a friend of mine i havent really talked to in like 2 months. She is one of my best friends due to the fact that she’s the only person more stuubborn than me, which keeps me in line. She told about some job opportunities she has next semester, then we talked about the whole scam Doctors pull when they prescibe medication. Then we watched Big Daddy.  Needless to say it was one of the best Friday evenings ive had in months.

Why

I just had an interesting conversation with a good friend of mine, we were discussing how much it hurts that there are no girls in our lives who think of us other than just friends. we discussed how much it hurts to sum up the courage to ask a girl out, even to a meal, and have her either turn you down, or make some excuse about how she cant have lunch/dinner at a certain time and date, then when you happen to go alone to the meal at that time, you see her happily eating with another guy.

Im not trying to stereotype an entire gender, but it just seems that the nice girls (who dont lie or try to work themselves out of having any contact with you) are so few and far between that it makes the act of being around girls so painful that guys like my friend and i just dont, we spend our weekends hanging out with other guys, or just sitting at home alone, which usually involves us going to bed early and lying awake trying to figure out what is so terribly wrong with us that girls dont even give us a chance.

ive seen too many of my (girl)friends get hurt by other guys, that i try my hardest to never treat them that way. but girls seem to like the guys who will neglect them, chest on them, and demean them. unfortunately, i refuse to become one of those kind of guys just for the sake of grabbing one girl’s attention.

what hurts me personally is how i damn myself. i once had a girl who, at least in what i thought, loved me very much, not because of my looks, or the “personality” i put on to impress her, but she saw a hurting young man and loved him nevertheless. unfortunately, i put an end to the whole situation. i thought it was best, i wasnt ready for a relationship, or so i thought.

it wasnt until after the fact that i realized this. and it has pained me everyday since. i had made one of the largest mistakes of my life, and there was no way of reversing it. i had given up, and hurt, the only girl who ever cared about me in that way.

im just frustrated, i dont know what im doing wrong, i spend tireless nights trying to figure out what i do wrong. many people have told me that i dont need someone in my life, but if that were true, then why does not having a girl hurt so much.

id appreciate any feedback on this.

Response to “Sugar and Spice”

Here is a response i got from a female friend of mine, you should probs read it

This isn’t a question, this is a response to your last post about relationship failure. There was a character limit for replies and I didn’t want to run out of room. I’ll start off by saying that I am sympathetic to your frustration over unrequited feelings. That situation is never fun, especially when you’re the one pouring out your heart and soul, only to get nothing in return. That being said, I think you have to remember that people can’t help whom they do or don’t fall for in that way. It’s not like anyone enjoys rejecting another person. Some would argue that doing the rejecting is just as difficult as being rejected. Additionally, it’s unfair to say that women are the only ones who mess with men’s emotions. Men do just as much messing around with women. And it’s not that women don’t appreciate the courteousness and helpfulness of men. I can guarantee that it doesn’t go unnoticed and that it is appreciated. But a man should check his motives if he thinks a girl owes him a date because he used common courtesy. He should act that way because it’s the right thing to do, not because he wants to get something out of it. Lastly, I would encourage you to put less stock into relationships. If you know you’re not speaking about the one at this time, then does it really matter if these small crushes (or whatever you want to call them) don’t work out? Commit the whole thing to God and He’ll work it out. I’m not trying to undermine the fact that romantic feelings can be frustrating, but don’t worry about them so much because you know that God is looking out for you. That’s all.

Thanks for the response!

“Sugar and Spice”?

Continuing on along the same path as my last post, I wanted to explore the issue of relationship failure. You know what I’m speaking of, that person whose name fits into the following blank: “I wish that ______ would realize how much I care about them, and how much they mean to me.” I can honestly say I’ve had a few girls who have fit that description.

Now please note that I am not speaking of “The One”. I honestly believe that I have not yet met that girl (or if I have, I obviously don’t know that they will be that part of my life). I’m speaking of those awkward, irritating, one-sided feelings that just end up making you angry. As you have probably figured out, I’ve had my fair share of these experiences. I’ve heard every excuse imaginable, “I really like _____”, “I’m not dating now” (then they’re dating someone else a week later), “let’s just be friends”, blah, blah, blah (you get the picture).

So here comes the rant, why is it that women find it ok to mess with our emotions, but if we even show the slightest hesitation in a relationship (or friendship), we’re the worst people in the world. OR you do all sorts of stuff for them, (not buying them stuff, that’s just shallow), but helping them and being genuinely courteous, trying to display how much they mean to you, and they don’t even blink an eye.

And please don’t think that I’m stereotyping women, because I strive to never stereotype anyone. I believe that women are a wonderful gift to this world, they fill in the gaps that men find in themselves, and in most cases, are the one voice of reason in our testosterone-driven lives. There are so many awesome girls in this world. It just seems that those are the girls that are not available (either by their own choice, or a current relationship).

I’d really like some feedback on this. Questions, concerns, agreement, disagreement, personal stories, I don’t care. Just let them be heard. Also, if any girls are reading this, I could use an “estrogen angle”, guys do the same things as girls when it comes to breaking hearts.

The Relationship

I havent written in a while, and being that is less than a week away from Valentine’s Day, I figured it was a good time to write down my thoughts on the whole Love/Dating/Relationships thing. First a disclaimer, I am in no way an expert on this whole subject in the sense of direct experience with relationships, but I have had many instances of indirect experiences through the relationships of those around me. I spent most of my college years being the guy who never really dated much himself, but seemed to always be around when a breakup or falling-out occurred between my friends. Most of this heartache stemmed from simple mis-communication and selfishness. I saw countless relationship break apart because someone said something nasty to someone else about a third party individual that wasnt true, or someone cheated on someone else, the list of scenarios goes on and on. Instead of getting fed up with the crap this world somehow creates, I resolved to be that one voice of reason that yells out, “Enough, you guys are making this relationship thing way too complicated”. Any and all problems in a relationship can be solved using two basic points:

• Selflessness
• Focusing on God above all else.

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