"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." Since I know it is all for Christ's good, I am quite content with my weaknesses and with insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.--II Corinthians 12:10

"I think there's a common assumption that you cannot both be a rigorous, show-me-the-data scientist and a person who believes in a personal God. I would like to say that from my perspective that assumption is incorrect; that, in fact, these two areas are entirely compatible and not only can exist within the same person, but can exist in a very synthetic way, and not in a compartmentalized way. I have no reason to see a discordance between what I know as a scientist who spends all day studying the genome of humans and what I believe as somebody who pays a lot of attention to what the Bible has taught me about God and about Jesus Christ. Those are entirely compatible views.

"Science is the way -- a powerful way, indeed -- to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective -- in fact, it's rather ineffective -- in making commentary about the supernatural world. Both worlds, for me, are quite real and quite important. They are investigated in different ways. They coexist. They illuminate each other. And it is a great joy to be in a position of being able to bring both of those points of view to bear in any given day of the week. The notion that you have to sort of choose one or the other is a terrible myth that has been put forward, and which many people have bought into without really having a chance to examine the evidence. I came to my faith not, actually, in a circumstance where it was drummed into me as a child, which people tend to assume of any scientist who still has a personal faith in God; but actually by a series of compelling, logical arguments, many of them put forward by C. S. Lewis, that got me to the precipice of saying, 'Faith is actually plausible.' You still have to make that step. You will still have to decide for yourself whether to believe. But you can get very close to that by intellect alone."--Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project.

All true science and history, if rightly understood, support the fact of God. This evidence is so strong that, as the Bible says: "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God" (Psalm 14:1). --C.S.Lewis

" This thing [a scale model of our solar system] is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to convince you that this mere toy is without a designer and maker; yet you, as an atheist, profess to believe that the great original from which the design is taken has come into being without either designer or maker! Now tell me by what sort of reasoning do you reach such an incongruous conclusion?"--Sir Issac Newton

• 24Nov 07

  EVERYBODY ON MY FRIENDS LIST, PLEASE READ!!!!! (caps) *UPDATED*

  *sigh*

  I just got off a two-week suspension. . .two weeks! Literally now with every moderaation, I'm being suspended for longer periods of time. I am tired of it. So, I've made a decision.

  I'm making a new account.

  I want to start off with a clean mod history. I already have another alt account, but I gave that one to someone else. When I think up a new name, it will be done. How does this concern you guys? I want you on my friends list. If you would like to stay friends on my new account, PM me here on this one, and when the account is made I'll send you a link. Do not expect a quick reply; I'm not very creative.

  Now, for what has happened. I think this sums up my two weeks pretty well.

  Last Friday, we went to a talent show. Of course, the school called it a "variety show," because to use the word "talent" wwould be false advertising. It was a bunch of little kids dancing to Hannah Montanna and singing "Colors of the Wind." There were a few good ones--one girl played the violin like a master--but most of it was gut-wrenching, and I was sick at the time, too.

  After that variety show, something horrible happened. The idiots in the school had turned off the lights in the front of the building, so nobody could see anything (it was dark). My grandmother, who I love more than anybody on this Earth, couldn't see the curb, so when she stepped off it she tripped and fell flat on her face.

  Now, my grandmother (or Nan as I always called her) is 70. You hear on the news about people who just fall and never get up again? For about ten seconds, she didn't move. At all. My mother was screaming. I was horrified. Three men and a woman came to help us. One of the men was a firefighter, another one said he was "in the medical field" (though he denied being a doctor) and the other one never mentioned his career. They helped her up, and do you know what Nan said?

  "I'm fine. Are my glasses okay?"

  That's Nan. Never mind that her face was cut up, her nose was swollen, her little finger was out of whack, and she could barely walk; She just trivializes anything that happens to her and over-exagerates anything that happens to anybody else. She even wanted to just drive home! Not that we would let her. We put her in the car and went to the emergency room, where we had to wait until 4:15 in the morning for news. I was literally running around the waiting area to keep from falling asleep and from going insane. The nurse saw me and let me go back to see Nan, even though it was breaking the rules. She has a broken nose, a broken finger, and some cuts, but that's it. We were horrified of a possible concusion, but no such. Nothing really bad at all. She was even out and about (with us of course) two days later! And most of all? She kept on worrying about her glasses (which are scratched up, but don't worry; the school is paying for them.) and her clothes, which weren't damaged at all. But seriously, I thank God so much that she wasn't hurt very bad. If she were to go. . . . . .I have no idea what would happen, but I would probably wallow in despair for the rest of my life.

  My uncle is now a father. His fiance gave birth two days before Thanksgiving. The baby is a cute litle turd.

  Thanksgiving was nothing totally special. We went to my great-aunt's house, like we do every Easter and Thanksgiving, and she over-did herself with the food, and half of us left with stomachaches. Same-old.

  I'm turning 18 soon. Less than two weeks. My mother can't stop talking about it.

  As for my Wii, I'm loving it, but I can't get the damn thing to go online! Oh well. It's still fun, and I beat Fire Emblem (which is the longest game I have ever played). I've got my eye on SSBB now.

  And that's it. This will probably be my last blog, unless it takes me a really long time to think of a new screen name. I'll rejoin my unions and such, but I will probably have a different profile. *sigh* and I really like this banner, too. I never even got to my 10-k party.

  EDIT: How does the name Dracargon sound? A cookie for anybody who knows what it means.

  • Posted Nov 24, 2007 8:03 am PT
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• 9Nov 07

  I've got a Wii!!!!!! *UPDATED*

  That's right, friends! Silver_Dragon17 is now officially a Wii-tard. I got the last one at Best Buy!

  I also got Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, and IT. IS. AWESOME. I love the remote and nunchuck.

  *Goes to play Wii*

  UPDATE: I just ordered this from Decalgirl. Awesome, no? I wanted one with dragons, but they only had two, and I didn't like them.

  • Posted Nov 9, 2007 4:14 pm PT
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• 7Nov 07

  I've finally made it!

  That's right! Level 20!

  Now I have to get to 21. . .

  • Posted Nov 7, 2007 11:19 am PT
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