At a Lose

Anyone who's spent an hour with me knows for a short time I pastored in Roanoke, Virginia and you also know how much I love it and how I came to consider it home.

With Monday's events at V.Tech, I'm beside myself. I've held off blogging on the event till now and in this blog I focus very little on the details of Monday out of respect for those who had to live through this Nightmare. When the news reached me I began calling as many friends as I could to check on them, some concerned about their physical safety and others their emotional state.

Reflecting about what happened and thinking about my friends, who I think of as family, I get overwhelmed with the emotions to the point of shock and numbness. What can you say about such a horrendous act that grieviously impacts so many people?!

All I know to do is give my love and my support and I ask anyone who reads this blog to do the same. Show your love and support through prayer and in your prayers mourn with those who mourn. The best way this can be expressed is through the phrase:

Today we are all Hokies!

Wannabe Evolutionist

It may surprise some of you to read this, but I wish I was an evolutionist. It would be the easiest path to take considering how widely accepted evolution is by the public and Christian communities. Although, I do not consider Genesis 1 and 2 be a literal account of creation. I do consider it to express that God created the world. I tend to think God spoke all of creation into existence simultaneously.

I used to think it would be so cool if God used evolution to create the world and now in my mind it would make life much easier to just be a theistic evolutionist, so I wouldn't have to deal with constant confrontation. The one hurdle in my acceptance of evolution is not Scripture or belief, but ration. As one who has traditionally been an evidentialist, concerned with what we can prove, all the evidence that has been presented to me by evolutionists does not allow me to accept an evolutionary approach. The probability of evolution being a reality is so astronomical that it goes against my "good sense" to put any weight in it. Even with God directing the process of evolution the latest datings of the earth still do not allow the necessary time for the current developments we experience. This is the primary inconsistency I have encountered in speaking with evolutionists and I wish I could make my life easier, but reason does not allow me to make this blind leap.