A friend gave me a cute button the other day. Now, I didn’t say he was as cute as a button, although I’m sure his bride thinks so. But the button was cute.
It has a simply drawn fish facing another simply drawn fish that happens to have feet. The first fish has the word “Jesus” printed across it, and the second fish with feet has the word “Darwin” printed across it. They are facing each other, like two fish kissing and hearts are bubbling up from their embrace.
The message of the button is pretty clear to me. Christians and Evolutionists embrace each other. I’ve never considered either to be exclusive of the other. Mind, heart, and faith go together for a wholly complete life. Yes, I am interested to from whence I came to be. Yes, I’m a believer.
What is all the fuss about? How come so many folks have this tendency to choose up sides? I just don’t accept the “us versus them” mentality. (Mayhaps, when it comes to football, but that’s a different story. Go TCU Horned Frogs!) I don’t want to be one of those Christians with a chip on my shoulder and looking for a fight, or worse a crusade. Let’s face it, Godless Evolution vs Creationism are labels for fighting positions. We should just take off our labels and dialogue.
I drive an automobile. My car does not run on corn syrup, it prefers petrol gas. That gasoline comes from decayed T’Rexes and numerous other dinosaurs. I cannot find one dinosaur named in my Bible, but I’m pretty sure they existed at one time. As a matter of observance, if you go by the way the Bible describes time, history only goes back so many thousand years and that just doesn’t give enough time for dinosaurs to turn into petroleum oil.
I believe God measures time on a whole different level than the way I do. I’m not so sure that a day as written by the ancients in Genesis equals one of my 24 hour days. I’m not limiting God, but I’m just sayin’ as another song writer once did, “there’s a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on!”
Let’s talk sometime about from whence we came.
With a song in my heart.
SoulSongWriter
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