Wanderings & maunderings
Happy: she who has finally managed to re-install lots of programmes onto Elrond =)
I've also scanned and printed my Sunday School pictures for this week and am doing the interminable twiddling of coursework. If I could a) get online or b) find a copy of those Penguin notes so I could find the endnotes to cite a source, I would be much further along. Currently I'm 54 words over the limit, having pared it down as much as I can (a la Fitzgerald ;) ) but there's more still to go in and the strictness of the moderators is apparently pretty high. Ah well, if I don't include the question or bibliography in the word count they'll never know to the difference...and, of course, last year's was like twice what it should have been and they never said anything.
Am having a particularly head-bangy moment about evolution and stuff...was explaining to Mummy about the valves in our veins and heart, and it's just so bloody ridiculous to consider that all those things could just have come together "by chance". I can understand why atheists so desperately want to believe it, though-they aren't keen at all on the idea of a God to whom they're responsible, so they are willing to make scientific idiots of themselves in order to eliminate Him. It's the theistic evolutionists I really don't get...we're given the explanation, if they'd just trust the truth of the Bible! I mean, it's kinda risky deciding that one part isn't literal but others are...if Genesis isn't true, who's to say that the Gospels are?
C.S. Lewis was extremely wise: I was reading Compelling Reason at breakfast and there was a really cool part:
...we must insist...that we believe...in a spirit-world which can, and does, invade the natural or phenomenal universe...If nothing remains except what could be equally well stated without Christian formulae, then the honest thing is to admit that Christianity is untrue and to begin over again without it.
So you can't try to explain away the beginning of life by spontaneously ambitious pond-scum ;)
20.00
Jim's here-I could here someone knocking on the door but couldn' see him in the twilight so I didn't let him in for ages =) He brought a cute birthday card and one of the new twenty pound notes. They're mostly the same, except...blue. Interesting.
The crocuses are so gorgeous. I really hope the weather stays nice and warm from now on...typical exam weather ;) I wish we had a house of our own again-I want a garden!
I typed a bit more of the latest chapter and am up to about 13 pages, but the KB count has gone bonkers.
Only a few hours left until I'm legal to do practically everything ;) except drive by myself *growls* I just hope no-one had the bright idea of sticking odd pictures of me up round school..nah, too clichéd. I hope.
Oh, and: Happy St. Paddy's Day. Because it seems to be obligatory.
I've also scanned and printed my Sunday School pictures for this week and am doing the interminable twiddling of coursework. If I could a) get online or b) find a copy of those Penguin notes so I could find the endnotes to cite a source, I would be much further along. Currently I'm 54 words over the limit, having pared it down as much as I can (a la Fitzgerald ;) ) but there's more still to go in and the strictness of the moderators is apparently pretty high. Ah well, if I don't include the question or bibliography in the word count they'll never know to the difference...and, of course, last year's was like twice what it should have been and they never said anything.
Am having a particularly head-bangy moment about evolution and stuff...was explaining to Mummy about the valves in our veins and heart, and it's just so bloody ridiculous to consider that all those things could just have come together "by chance". I can understand why atheists so desperately want to believe it, though-they aren't keen at all on the idea of a God to whom they're responsible, so they are willing to make scientific idiots of themselves in order to eliminate Him. It's the theistic evolutionists I really don't get...we're given the explanation, if they'd just trust the truth of the Bible! I mean, it's kinda risky deciding that one part isn't literal but others are...if Genesis isn't true, who's to say that the Gospels are?
C.S. Lewis was extremely wise: I was reading Compelling Reason at breakfast and there was a really cool part:
...we must insist...that we believe...in a spirit-world which can, and does, invade the natural or phenomenal universe...If nothing remains except what could be equally well stated without Christian formulae, then the honest thing is to admit that Christianity is untrue and to begin over again without it.
So you can't try to explain away the beginning of life by spontaneously ambitious pond-scum ;)
20.00
Jim's here-I could here someone knocking on the door but couldn' see him in the twilight so I didn't let him in for ages =) He brought a cute birthday card and one of the new twenty pound notes. They're mostly the same, except...blue. Interesting.
The crocuses are so gorgeous. I really hope the weather stays nice and warm from now on...typical exam weather ;) I wish we had a house of our own again-I want a garden!
I typed a bit more of the latest chapter and am up to about 13 pages, but the KB count has gone bonkers.
Only a few hours left until I'm legal to do practically everything ;) except drive by myself *growls* I just hope no-one had the bright idea of sticking odd pictures of me up round school..nah, too clichéd. I hope.
Oh, and: Happy St. Paddy's Day. Because it seems to be obligatory.