Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Here is a picture from my train ride home last night (this was when the car was only about 1/2 full so I could move my arms enough to pull the camera out of my bag and snap a picture). I didn't want to use a flash (how rude) so the quality isn't great. The good thing is you can sleep standing up because there is not enough room to fall. The 8 people smashed against you will keep you vertical.

This morning I came to the church school to teach 7 of the junior high and high school students (mostly Iversons!). All in English, no simultaneous transaction necessary (yea!). I was also asked to do a short devotional at the start of the day to all the students, so I talked a little about 1 Corinthians (Chap 1 v. 20, 22-23 and Chap. 2 v. 6) and why I was here in Japan.

In case you are wondering what is the Intelligent Design Theory. Let me give you a quick definition; it is pretty modest really, but important.

Intelligent Design is the theory that certain features of the physical universe and/or biological systems can be best explained by reference to an intelligent cause (that is, the conscious action of an intelligent agent), rather than an undirected natural process or a material mechanism. It doesn't try to answer the who or why or how of the designer, just that there are 'fingerprints' in certain aspects of biology and cosmology that point to evidence of design (not random chance variations preserved only by natural selection).

So variations of finch beaks and antibiotic resistant super flu bugs are not an issue in intelligent design. That kind of evolution appears to happen. It is when the theory of evolution is extrapolated to say that the evolutionary theory fully and adequately answers the questions about the origin of life and the diversity of life that there is an issue.

Well, I am off to the next adventure.

Taylor