Life, The Universe, And Everything

I do not fail at life. Let there be praise and rejoicing!

My ipod has reached the stage of infirmary at which it was kinder to let it retire to a peaceful existence on the shelf waiting for someone to go to the apple store and turn it in for a discount rather than force it to continue as a member of the work force. So I went to get a new ipod, I wanted a red one but they didn't have any, so I picked up a blue one, only when I got it home it turned out to be purple. That's ok, I'm cool with purple.




On a more serious note a warm welcome to Joshua, when can I come see him?

Proverbs 30:1-4
The man declares, I am weary, O God;
I am weary, O God, and worn out.
Surely I am too stupid to be a man.
I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the Holy One.
Who has ascended to heaven and come down?
Who has gathered the wind in his fists?
Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment?
Who has established all the ends of the earth?
What is his name, and what is his son's name?
Surely you know!

Eyebrows. As in the ridge of bone that protects your eye, mine still hurts from getting kicked in the head, imagine if it had actually hit my eye. I'm considering starting an "interesting injury of the week" commentary if only to assure people that I still live, thoughts?

In a completely different topic pictures of me with my brown hair are now on facebook, I haven't decided if I like the pictures well enough to set one as my profile picture yet though.

I'm now a brunet for the first time in five years. That means I no longer have an excuse to be scatterbrained.

The thing I hate most about working in groups is that I always seem to be the one who has to take charge. In addition my Statistics group really sucks because I'm the only one who passed the last test, so I have to do all the work myself if I hope to get a passing grade on the project.

I feel I need to admit to being hurt by the latest Short Notes. I was able to override my initial impulse to simply delete the e-mail and have gone back and read it more carefully but it still makes me feel as if he is saying that I cannot be both a Christian and a legitimate scientist. As for that film, based on all the descriptions I've seen so far it sounds like a Micheal Moore film, only biased in the opposite direction.

Bu the angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified. He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay."
Matthew 28: 5-6

P.S.
Lord I appreciate the symbolism of a white Easter but I confess I'm mortal tired of snow.

8 in the morning is an absolutely unholy hour to be expected to write and essay and unless my TA is particularly gifted in deciphering scribble he won't be able to read the last paragraph anyway.

So yesterday my brother borrowed my razor and shaving cream in order to shave his legs for the meet he has this weekend. I just thought that was so funny I had to share it.

So today I thought my 10:00 class was at 9:00 and so I had to sit through an hour of Calculus because I didn't notice I was in the wrong class until the teacher showed up. The worst part is I don't have a 9:00 class, I could have slept for another hour.

Disclaimer: I do not know enough about Intelligent Design or Physics to make any arguments about the validity of Gonzalez's work, and these statements are not intended to make it seem as if I throw my opinion either way on the issue.

From the beginning the question of Gonzalez being denied tenure has made me angry. I've not known why exactly I was angry but after I read this most recent article I was so angry that I had to take some time and speak with God before I felt I could be rational about it. While I was talking to God I was able to understand what about the issue has been making me angry and I've felt that I should share those things here.

There are two issues. One is that we bring glory to God by taking care of those things that we are responsible for. As an employee of the University in a research position Gonzalez has two main responsibilities. The first is to bring in research money, and the second is to publish in order to bring prestige to the University. It is then required that you report to the University how much money you have brought in and how much you have published, on which basis they evaluate your performance. I know that this information is available from the University, I'm not sure if it is available to everyone or only to Science faculty but it is verifiable by people other than the Committee for Tenure. In the article Gonzalez asserts that he was denied tenure for his professed belief in Intelligent Design. However, he has brought in less than half the amount of grant money the other people who applied for tenure have and the vast majority of his publications were made before he came to ISU making them ineligible for consideration in the review of his tenure application. That he now claims his application was rejected on a religious basis seems to me to be the sort of thing that gives Christianity a bad name when he so clearly did not take care of the responsibilities he was given.

The other more important issue is that God gave us minds and with them we developed science in order to understand his creation, but we cannot use this imperfect tool which we created to understand the perfect being who created us. The purpose of science is to take big ideas and make them small enough that we can understand them, to do that to God is a terrible thing. When someone does that all that happens is that they use science to create an idol which they call God and then wave in our faces "I've found God by using science!" My God is too big to be understood by science and big enought that I don't need science to find him. Any god that is small enough for that is not going to be a god that I can place my trust in.

I think that's the longest entry I've ever written on here but I just felt I needed to get that out.

Going to the store and being asked repeatedly if I would like to apply for their store credit card because of how great it is. I said no the first time and I meant it, asking me again makes me less likely to apply for it not more.

My Religion Final, 10 minutes and I went over my answers twice. why couldn't that have been at 7 in the morning instead of Thermo which actually requires thought?

So I asked God to help me learn to mannage my time better and he has provided me with a job. So now I get to spend my free time doing data entry, rather than goofing off.

It's April. Why is it snowing?

So yesterday it was 70 and today it's snowing. Don't you love November in Iowa. Hopefully we'll have an ice storm next friday and I won't have to take my calc test.

so in the metro and Iowa section of this mornings Des Moines register was an article about the church from Topeka Kansas who has been picketing at the funerals of service men killed in Iraq. Apparently they have now expanded their operations and picketed outside several Des Moines area churches during yesterday's service. The article is on the whole rather depressing and exactly what Tony Hill talked about during team dinner, driving a wedge between the lost (namely Homosexuals) and God. There was, however, a little piece tucked in next to the main article about how the Lutheran Church of Hope, targeted because it is a "mega dog kennel. These fools have nothing to hope for, no faith, because they don't serve God." The pastor Mike Householder asked for volunteers to serve breakfast to the picketers, to follow the example Jesus set and serve those who hate them, "To people who offer us hate, we want to offer them love." so kudos to the Lutheran Church of Hope for that demonstration of the true spirit of Christianity.

I got and A on my physics test. physics is now the only class in which i am not desperately clinging to the curve. it will take a minor miracle for me to get a B in Calc and OChem and a major miracle for an A. Prayers are much appreciated.

In the middle of the second round of tests, i have no life outside of school, my computer, and my daily devotional

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