This quick succesion of posts this morning is my attempt to satisfy all the DW addicts that need a fix. I know it isn’t as pure and strong as the Ddub, but perhaps it can tide you over until next week.

For work, I order a lot of supplies from Carolina Biological Supply Company. With the system we use, I have to send my order request to the business office, and they actually place the order. After they do that, they send me a copy of the order, confirming that it has in fact been placed.
So, back in mid-May, I sent over some things that I needed from Carolina, and got the confirmation from the business office a few days later. Mid-June rolls around, and I still haven’t received anything. So I call Carolina. They say the lady I need to talk to is out to lunch, and she’ll call me back later that day. I leave my name number and wait. For nearly a month. Now, I actually wasn’t waiting around by the phone. I’ve had things to do, labs to set up, etc. It didn’t dawn on me that I still didn’t have this stuff until Wednesday. So I called Carolina again, and asked what was going on. After being on hold for a while, I am told that the lady that handles our orders is busy, but that she said she didn’t receive the order, and for me to fax it again and they’d ship it out that day. I got the number and all the info I needed.
Now, I wasn’t sure if this was something the business office needed to do, or if I could just fax the copy of the order. So I emailed the business office and asked. Yesterday, I got a reply saying I could go ahead and fax my copy of the order. I have not yet faxed the order.
But, today I get a few packages from Carolina. A partial shipment of the order that they didn’t receive. How about that, huh? They’re sending me stuff that they didn’t even know that I wanted! Quite good, eh?!

It’s one thing for them to lose the order, or whatever happened, and not ship it out on time. And maybe even not getting back to me about it the first time. But it’s something else entirely for them to lie about never receiving it. Too bad I am required to order from them because of a contract.

Many Christians today, even in the conservative Reformed tradition, do not believe the creation account is literal. They say the Bible does not demand that the days a literal, 24 hour days. The reason for this, of course, is because ‘science’ today has said the earth is over 4 billion years old. If that is the case, then the creation account in Genesis cannot possibly be meant as a literal historical narrative of actual events. “The Bible is not meant to be a science textbook”, they say. They are afraid that if we say the Bible teaches a literal six days, that we are opening ourselves up to ridicule or, worse, folly. “Just as the church held to a geocentric cosmology and was openly made to look stupid”, it is argued, “and we might do the same thing today”. “Why be so dogmatic?”, they ask.
Science, it is claimed, has shown that the earth cannot be a mere six thousand years old, as a literal reading of Scripture would lead us to believe. But if these brothers are going to side with the scientists, and accept their assumptions that lead to this extremely old age (billions of years) of the earth, then let us also share some of the other conclusions these same godless assumptions have lead to.

In 1959, in a speech at the centennial celebration of the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, Sir Julian Huxley said,

Future historians will perhaps take the Centennial Week as epitomizing an important critical period in the history of this earth of ours – the period when the process of evolution, in the person of inquiring man, began to be truly conscious of itself… This is one of the first public occasions on which it has been frankly faced that all aspects of reality are subject to evolution, from atoms and stars to fish and flowers, from fish and flowers to human societies and values – indeed, that all reality is a single process of evolution.
In 1859, Darwin opened the passage leading to a new psychosocial level, with a new pattern of ideological organization – an evolutionary-centered organization of thought and belief.
In the evolutionary pattern of thought there is no longer either need or room for the supernatural. The earth was not created, it evolved. So did all the animals and plants that inhabit it, including our human selves, mind and soul as well as brain and body. And so did religion. Evolutionary man can no longer take refuge from his loneliness in the arms of a divinized father figure whom he has himself created, nor escape from the responsibilty of making decisions by sheltering under the umbrella of Divine Authority, nor absolve himself from the hard task of meeting his present problems and planning his future by relying on the will of an omniscient, but unfortunately inscrutable, Providence.

The text of Genesis – indeed, all of Scripture – gives us no reason at all to believe the creation days are anything but ordinary days. The only reason one would seek any other interpretation is because the views of men such as Julian Huxley are determined to be more trustworthy than the plain understanding of the Text. It would be because the science of the day tells us that the earth is billions of years old, and then we obediently interpret God’s Holy Word in light of these “facts”.

If you’re going to trust these scientists, and give validity to their methods and assumptions; if you’re going to act as though the worldview that asserts the age of the earth without reference to the Creator of the earth is not antithetical to the Christian worldview, then these are the same conclusions you will ultimately come to, so long as you are consistent.

Praise God that most are not consistent.

Why do publishers print endnotes, and not footnotes? I mean, really… it’s so annoying.

In our house, Psalm 128B from The Book of Psalms For Singing (published by Crown & Covenant) is a popular tuen. We sing it when we’re excited and happy, and also when trying to get the girls to bed. We just adjust the tempo and volume a little to make it suitable to the occasion.

Geneva knows all the words (if she has a little bit of help) and Ashley knows just one word. And it cracks me up. Typically, after we all pray together, I’ll pick up Ashley and sing to her while Megan gives Geneva some finishing tucks. In the Psalm, the last line of the first verse is “and like olive plants thy children, compassing thy table round”, and then it repeats. Ashley knows when to sing ’round’. And so twice in the song she gets to sing out “wound!” “wound!” She loves it. I love it, too.

I just noticed that, in firefox, while browsing a page, if you just start typing, it will automatically take you to the first link with that letter, and highlight it. if you type another letter, it goes to those two letters, and so on. When you get to the link you want you just press enter, and presto!, you’re taken to that page.

As if tab browsing wasn’t enough…