Darwin

No matter what your personal view of evolution is one thing can't be denied, that is that Charles Darwin was a very intelligent man. He wrote many books and papers in his life time and since his death in 1882 only a small group of people have been able to read his actual hand written work at the library of Cambridge University. But now, thanks to a small group of people, anyone can look on anything that Darwin ever wrote along with first drafts of his papers and theories. It is worth looking through but if you want to read any of his work that is edited and in print most of it is in the public domain and so it can be accessed through Google books here.

Update: I actually wrote this post about a week ago and scheduled in to post today, but it you are interested in a little more about atheism check out the discussion to my post titled Let's Kill God.

Good Questions (Part 2)

Here is the second part of those the questions, this post will be shorter then the last. Again if something doesn't make any since just post it in the comments and I will do my best to respond and make it clear what I mean.

Minor Questions

• If Christianity is right then why is there so much proof for evolution? Christianity and evolution are not actually mutually exclusive, there are many people who believe that the way that God created the world and all life was through evolution. In fact when you look at the theory of evolution and get down to the statistics of it evolution becomes a very unlikely thing and the only way to really explain it is with God.

• Was the virgin birth real? Couldn't someone just made it up? The answer to this is yes it could have been made up. But this isn't very likely because, to put in a modern example it would be like going around saying that you have aids but you haven't had sex, people would have just said that you where crazy. Not only that but the chances of the man staying with the woman would have been slim with out some intervention. You see back in those days there was a huge double standard and if a woman got pregnant the man could just leave and get away with little more then a stern talking to.

• Did they really find Noah's ark? This is a debatable question, many people say yes and many people say no. The facts are that for a boat to survive for thousands of years is very unlikely, but God has done more miraculous thing then keep a boat on top of a mountain before.

• If Noah's ark is true then why aren't we all inbreed freaks? First most people don't realize that there where 8 people on the boat; Noah, Noah's wife, Noah's 3 sons, and the 3 sons wives. This is an ok number to start with so that nothing goes wrong down the line. The second thing that most people don't realize is that problems with inbreeding don't USUALLY start in 1 or 2 generations, it USUALLY takes longer then that. You can look at dogs for an example, we have been breeding dogs in a relatively small gene pool for many years now and, while there are some problems that have come up, there aren't any 2 tailed dogs running around or any with 5 legs. Inbreeding happens when a small group of people (say about 5) have sex, then there children have sex, and then those children have sex.

• If Christianity is right then why are there so many other religions? It is in the nature of man to wonder about God, this makes us ask question of ourselves and the universe around us. This is great except that because we are sinful when we go searching for those answers we inevitably get lost, the ironic this is the time that we are, usually, closest to God but we may not reach out for Him and instead we go on to try to answer our questions by ourselves. This results in false doctrine and false beliefs.

• I want to learn more about this and start to go to church but I can't fit it into my schedule. If this is really true then in today's world there are a lot of things that you can do that fit your schedule. Podcasts are a good example, and two great ones to start with are Mars Hill Church with Mark Driscoll and Ravi Zacharias, blogs are another place to go as well as seeing if a local church has a podcast that they offer.