Creation vs. Evolution: Part 6- So How Old is the Earth?- Conclusion

Creation vs. Evolution: Part 5- "Bones of Contention"

(Taken from the AiG website...)

Z: Fossils and common descent. This is one of the most controversial topics, whether they prove or disprove evolution. “When objections are raised about ‘evolution,’ the object of concern is nearly always the concept of common descent. Common descent is the proposal that all organisms, living and extinct, are connected by an unbroken series of ancestor-descendent relationships to a single ancestral life form by a process of descent with modification. 

Creation vs. Evolution: Part 4- Survival of the Fittest and Sin

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Z: Survival of the Fittest. One of the basic terms in the evolutionary process. Basically meaning, “Whoever was the fittest survived.” (Not hard to understand, is it?) My question to you is, why, if God knew that different species would fail to survive and become extinct, why did he even create them in the beginning? If, like the dodo, animals would die and never be seen again, why did God even let those animals come into existence? “Extinction—the complete dying out of a species—is a normal occurrence in nature. Most species that have ever existed are now extinct.” (Encyclopedia of Animals, p. 22) Why did God allow those animals even to survive? Unless he, in evolution, just let some parts of it go wherever it took those animals, perhaps God changed it a little bit to make it better, but then left that family of animals to then die out? If we take the literal view of creation, why did God create those

animals that had no chance to survive?

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Creation vs. Evolution: Part 3- The Dinosaur Debate

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Z: In these next four paragraphs I will cover topics that have everything to do with how the world was created and the aftermath.

Dinosaurs:

     Some of the most interesting animals to ever walk the earth—for about perhaps 2,000 years, if you believe what the Bible says literally. God created all reptiles on the fifth “day” then he killed them off in the flood, many literal creationists say. But, in the encyclopedia, it says that they ruled the earth for about 140 million years.

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1 X 1 = 3?

Anybody who knows anything about math will tell  you that 1 x 1 does not equal 3.  But then, most people don't raise goats.  For, you see, in the goat world:

Update

Well, nothing really new here at S.C.H, except that Mr. Schmidt finally got a package that was sent like three months ago.  A quick tip, if you want to send anything to Haiti, don't send in in a package!  Send it with a person on an airplane as luggage or something.  This package was a MESS.  I won't torture you with the details, but it had been opened, and most of the stuff in it was ruined.  It was really kind of sad.  Oh well.

     Miss Betty seems to think that the world revolves around her.  It is obvious that she's never been disciplined till she came here.  A good example is mealtimes, when she always trys very hard to eat her bib.  We can't feed her while her bib is in her mouth, and we eventually had to start flicking her on the hand.  She's getting better now, but until yesterday, whenever she was flicked (or sometimes (to borrow Jo's words) "if someone cast a look upon her" that she didn't like) she would open her mouth and give a yell that sounded like she was saying "Oooooooowwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!"  It a

Day at Legoland

A couple weeks ago, our family took a fun trip with some friends to Legoland, a theme park in the Orlando area.  It was a lot of fun, and Savana took many photos of the day.

     We left the house before 7:00 AM, so that we could get through Orlando before rush-hour traffic.  For a special treat, Daddy took us by Dunkin' Donuts, and picked up some donuts and coffee for us.

     In a parking lot a short distance from the gate, we met our friends who invited us to come.

There were a few minutes of greeting and chatting, then we loaded back up and headed over to the entrance.

The entrance was pretty elaborate.  We had to wait outside for a short time while Mr. K. got the tickets for everyone.

Daddy grew up near several amusement parks in KY, and the K's did in Orlando, so they took us straight to the roller-coasters, knowing that later on there would be long lines in front of them.  Savana still found time to take a couple photos of Mini-land on the way there though.

The detail they put into everything was amazing.

A beautiful waterfall that was part of the old Cyprus Gardens.

Left back:  Farrah, RB: Justice.  Left front:  William, RF: Sean K.

I went on this roller-coaster, and immediately remembered how much I dislike them.  Unfortunately, it was almost identical to the very first one I ever rode (which was, with one exception, also the last) and which gave me a seemingly permanent fear of them.  I am not a roller-coaster fan, but later that day Farrah and Evan persuaded me to ride another (an old wooden one- couldn't help but wonder what would happen if one of those old timbers broke...) and all the way home it felt just like I was riding one.  It was sort of fun though...

The "Flying School".  (I didn't go... the first roller-coaster was enough for me at the time.)

Evan with his new car  :)

After the Flying School, we were off to the Driving School, and then the Boating School.

All the Lego creations were amazing.  It must have taken a lot of time to put them together.

This was a play are designed for younger children, but we all enjoyed shooting each other with the soft foam balls.

We had a tasty picnic lunch on the grass just outside the entrance, since we weren't allowed to take coolers into the park.

Russell gravely dissecting his sandwich.

After lunch, everyone headed to the large merry-go-round in the front of the park.  We all rode it... (Someone had to take care of all those little guys ya' know!)

Then we went to the greenhouse...

Then the "Island in the Sky".  It was slightly terrifying... Especially when I heard that it "has been a feature in the skyline for over three decades."  150 feet in a rotating pavilion on the end of a boom arm is higher than I cared for.  But the view was neat.

Later, Mama, Farrah, Savana, Russell and I walked over to the old Cyprus Gardens section of the park.  It was beautiful.

This was an enormous banyan tree, planted by the first owner of the place.

After we left the park, our friends took us out for pizza, and then it was time to say goodbye and head home.  We had a great day, and spent it with some great friends!

Creation Debate: Part Two- Evolution is Incompatible with Christianity

Here is part two of the Creation Debate series.  I hope you find it helpful!

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Z:  If we reinterpret the "six days" of creation into time periods, perhaps, millions of years going on during those, "days" then we see that the scientific point of view, that the earth is old, (once more, that idea doesn’t fit the evidence, and evolution isn’t real science) is completely logical from a Christian standpoint.

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Creation Debate: Part 1- Evolution Is Not Science

This is a slightly altered version of an online debate I had a few years back on Google Buzz.  The person I was debating with with was the son of an evolutionary professor of science and religion at a "Christian" college.  What he wrote is in italics, and my answer is in regular font, except where I used italics or bold for emphasis.  I have left this almost unaltered from when it was originally posted on Google Buzz.  The few places which have been altered are underlined.

Creation Debate:  Evolution Is Not Science

Z:  I think I'll reply to that...

First of all... I'm not saying that I don't believe the Bible. I think it is the truth and the holy Bible. However, I think that some parts of it aren't meant to be taken literally. As in the creation account. You are correct in that if I don't believe that there was a real Adam, or a real Eve, then I can't really believe that there was a real Cain*. However, I'm not saying I don't believe the creation account in the Bible. I'm just saying that it wasn't meant to be taken literally, like other parts of the Bible. I see that if we combine science and the creation account in the Bible, we come up with something that doesn't go against the Bible.

A quick (and much needed) catch-up post

Hello everybody!  Sorry for the lack of posts around here lately...  it probably gets rather boring following a blog that never gets updated.  Part of the reason is that we have been very busy (as usual), and also that I have been working on another blog:  Chicken Scraps Blog.  This is a sort of farm blog/ website, and is where I'll be posting farm news, recipes, tips, etc.  I've wanted to do something like this for a while, and am pretty excited about it.  Hopefully though, I'll be able to balance posting on that blog, and also this, so that neither gets neglected.

     Another reason I haven't posted a whole lot on here is because I didn't feel that I had much worth posting.  Not being a photographer, I couldn't very well post a lot of photos, and didn't make a priority of keeping this blog up to date.  That's about to change now though- for the next few weeks I'll be posting on the subject of Creation vs. Evolution (always a favorite topic of mine).  I'll explain a little more about this series at the beginning of it.

     And now for a quick update on what I and my family have been up to:

     Our family recently implemented a new schedule, so our days are better organized than before.  This schedule has me helping my siblings with school part of the morning, and leaves me more free-time than I had before.  (Not that I didn't have free-time before, just it wasn't very structured, as managing time is a skill that I need to work on.)

     Daddy and Evan started a new business:  Internet Computer Services.  They sell and install high-speed satellite internet, build and fix computers, and also build websites.  The Lord has blessed Evan with the ability to figure out computers, laptops, cell-phones, tablets, and technology in general.  He is certified, and has apprenticed with a computer repair store in Ormond, as well as continually researching on his own.  Daddy is good at sales, and managing finances and paperwork, so they make a good team.  This new business is a blessing- not only because it helps provide for our family, but also because it is a wonderful opportunity for Evan and Daddy to work together.  So far they have made quite a few internet sales, and Evan has fixed a lot of computers.  (Incidentally, the younger ones in our family have gotten to know every UPS driver who delivers to our area because of all the satellite dish deliveries.  :)

     I turned 19 in August.  My family made sure that I had a wonderful day, well actually, a wonderful three days, of celebration.  There were several surprises, including a treasure hunt, an ice-cream cake, and a surprise visit from my grand-parents.

Me with Tammy, our neighbor's horse which I train and ride.

     Savana is working on improving her photography skills, so I had to submit to a photo shoot,  which involved lounging in soft, green, grass, climbing a tree, and smiling for the camera a lot.  (She posted a lot of the pictures she took on our family blog.

    
     Bo also had a birthday.  He is quite the inventor,  or perhaps I ought to say, the innovator.  He can improvise almost anything to work on his various projects.  The latest thing he has started working on is solar power.  (Some of his other interests this year have included:  raising laying pullets for sale so that he'll have some more pocket money, growing tomatoes, echinacea, or cosmos for the same purpose, flying airplanes, building rockets, and assembling satellite dishes.  There are probably a few others, but I can't remember them right now.

Bo with a satellite dish he assembled for Daddy and Evan.

      Lately, he has discovered a few things:  a) He wants to be a pilot, b) he can earn a little money by assembling satellite dishes, and c) a wood-burning pen makes a pretty good soldering iron.  He never ceases to amaze (and sometimes, frighten) me with the various things he comes up with.

     Well, I hope you've enjoyed this glimpse into the past few months of our lives!

They're here!

Well, it has been way too long since I've posted on here, and I'll need to do some catch-up posts (hopefully during the coming week or two), but just now I wanted to publish the latest news from the Feldman Family Farm:

We have some new arrivals!

Here they are...

What a happy Mama!

Sorry for the poor photo- low light + not-so-good zoom= not the best photo...

The daddy is our neighbor's sweet Chocolate lab, Maverick.  Inez is the mama, and is our family farm dog.  She is super sweet to people and our animals, but does an amazing job guarding the farm from predators.  

We knew that Inez would be having the puppies soon, and so have been trying to keep her locked up in the stall of our barn as she isn't very choosey where she whelps.  In fact, last time it was a mud hole in the woods, five or six feet back in thornbushes, which yours truly had to chop with a matchete and then crawl through to get them out (Evan wasn't home or he would have done it).  Unfortunately, she escaped from the stall even though I thought she was secured, and dug under the house to whelp.  We had been away from the house, and when we returned, and I saw she was gone, we started hunting.  We searched for a good hour before a severe thunderstorm drove us back.  (I got in last- soaked through and rather alarmed by the nearby lightning, blinding rain and crashing thunder.)  We then waited on the deck for the storm to blow over.  It seemed to have done so and we were just heading out again, when there was another flash, and the loudest crash of thunder yet convinced that it was still not time to leave the deck.  (Mama says that she felt the electricity from the bolt, but I and the others waiting on the deck did not.)

Finally, the storm seemed to have settled down enough, and we were just starting off again when I heard a soft whimpering and mewing from under the house.  It was the puppies!  So finally, after we pulled up part of the siding, our search ended almost directly beneath our feet.  The amazing thing was that this was a distinct answer to prayer- just 5-10 minutes before I had been praying that the Lord would protect Inez and her babies, and lead us directly to them.  And He most certainly did.

This is Inez's largest litter yet- 8 puppies total.  There are two white ones (both females), and six black ones (4 females and two males).  These puppies will be for sale for $200 each.  They will be ready for their new homes when they are eight weeks old.  If you would like to give a home to one of these wonderful pups, please contact me at chickenscrapsblog@gmail.com.  A special discount may be available to my faithful blog readers, who joined at least one month previous to the puppies birth.
 Below are some photos of puppies from her previous litters.  They are full siblings with these pups.