la croissance
Great weekend at my parents’ house back in Chapel Hill. Diane and Luke came and we had a quiet weekend at home. There is a palpable peace in that home and it feels good to rest. I’ll admit my own perception is colored somewhat by my comfort in the environment, but I really think there is something to it independent of my point of view.
Got the chance to spend some time with Paul on Saturday afternoon. He is finishing up his master’s thesis in meteorology at NCSU and his defense is scheduled for the middle of this month, an event I would like to attend. It was good to see him. We ate at a great little Greek deli near his apartment in Cary and gesticulated and carried on like two old Greek men sitting by the window as we ate our food (I had a fantastic chicken curry). He shared about his recent trip to Alaska, we rehashed inside jokes (our “Frenglish” and Spongebob jokes) and reminisced about the family and talked about how it is changing and developing. I love my brothers.
Later that night Diane and went on our first actual date (where it was just the two of us) in well over a month and had a wonderful time sharing about families and other particularities like apologetics, philosophy and the nature of humor. I love her and see no shadow of parting from her.
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Coffee Theology tonight. We’re finishing up the chapter on Creation and will be going over the biblical and physical evidence concerning the age of the Earth, among other things. Last week we hashed over the fundamental flaws present in evolutionary theory (in any of its iterations). Most, if not all of the folks attending group were well-versed in counter-arguments against the tenets of evolution, but I posed the question, “What evidence do evolutionists really put forth to counter the claims of creationism?” We know the many, many flaws inherent in evolutionary theory; in other words, we “prepare” for what we think they may argue, but what do they really advance? We agreed that, in our experience, most of the time proponents of evolution will target adherents of creationism on primarily philosophical grounds (at least those concerning the philosophy of science itself) rather than bolstering the plausibility of their theory on purely scientific terms. In any case, tonight’s subject should foster a lively and fruitful discussion.