Lead Bread and Creationism

Well, I guess I need to blog a little more often. I've not really had a chance to be on the computer much at home. We upgraded our computer a little and Rod can play his games now...so needless to say I don't get on here too often. Although I am on a computer all day at work anyway...that's enough to dampen my desire to get on the computer when I get home. Even now, Mark is looking over my shoulder asking if he can play his Transformer computer game *sigh*...in a minute. Okay, so work is just kind of a bummer. I told my boss that her business is failing because of her. She did the usual "try to blame everyone else" game, but I wouldn't let her. I told her she wasn't focused and she said that we weren't focused...I told her we were as focused as our boss since we do what she tells us to do. Ah well, I know I didn't get through to her, but at least I let off some steam. I've been using my new mixer a lot (I got my red kitchenaid finally). It mixes up dough like a dream...except when the dough hook was on too low. Then I got lead bread because some metal chips got into the dough. I was very sad at the waste of ingredients. I fixed the problem though, so everything should be ok from here out. A few couples are leaving our church, all in secrecy or something. Nobody is saying why. The sad thing is...one couple is our small group leaders and the other couple were our really good friends. It's not fair. Everyone that becomes our friends seems to leave the church...we have a bad track record for sure. But we are pretty sure they didn't have a problem with us (not like Jessie and Leo for those of you who know that situation) but have some problem with the church that they aren't sharing. Our small group leaders have become our good friends and they have asked us to keep coming on Friday nights for group; their family situation is a lot like ours. We have been able to vent and encourage each other a lot in these last few months. The church is frowning on us continuing to be friends with them (I guess because they left the church on bad or no terms and they don't want us to be influenced by them). I told the pastor's wife that we would remain friends with them and that we were not easily influenced to leave a church just because someone else is. We strongly believe that you don't leave a church just because you don't necessarily agree with everything the pastor does or the church does. Everyone's advice when we talk about something we disagree with in the church is "well leave," but that's not the answer. Even Martin Luther knew that when he tried to change the Catholic Church. He tried to purify it from within and they kicked him out because of his "radical" ideas (like faith alone)...he didn't leave by choice. Changing subjects, after visiting the Creation Museum when we visited Mom and Dad's this winter, I am sooo pumped up about arguing for creation science. I've been laughed at and looked at like I'm a simple person who "just doesn't know a lot about science" because if I did of COURSE I would believe in evolution...WRONG. I get jazzed when I get to debate an evolutionist. Yesterday it was my boss. I love it when they bring up supposed "transformational" organisms whose fossils are found. Don't these scientist realize that thousands if not millions of species have died out since the flood, and some of them have yet to be discovered. Simple logic, if someone could get past the scientific jargon, tells us that the earth is not millions of years old and we didn't evolve from monkeys!! What I try to explain is that both sides of the debate are intelligent scientists...it's simply that each group begins from a different premise: Creationists from the Bible and Evolutionists from Darwin's Origin of Species. After several debates with an evolutionist I used to work with, I finally was able to get him to see that creation scientists were not ill-educated religious fanatics and if he didn't change his mind about evolution, he at least respected that creation is simply a different viewpoint, not what other call an "uneducated religious belief." My boss told me yesterday "science always comes first"...meaning before religion. I thought that was interesting since God created science...oh wait, then you'd have to believe in creation, dang.