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Why do I do whatever un tells me to?
I was not a math major…chemical engineering… but i got very similar responses…
un:
Add a slice of “Can you tell me everything you know about fractals?”
davereed: Physics major over here. Same reactions.
“You religious people.”
Somebody told me that my people had killed Galileo because he had different ideas.
I did not know what to say so I stood and awkwardly laughed and felt deeply offended.
I thought about all the things I could of replied with for awhile and stirred up some anger and I realized I was being silly so I just let it go. That is all you can do sometimes. Let it go.
Good work. And don’t forget 1 Corinthians 1:18; the state of the entire human race is such that God’s ultimate truth and redemptive plan will look like foolishness to every person until the Spirit does a divine work in their heart. Even if you’d had a quick and sly retort, classyliving, it would’ve likely done little to impact their views; witnessing the love of God within the body of Christ is usually what finally softens people’s hearts.
And, FYI, the Church did not kill Galileo, although they did imprison him for his heliocentric views, which was indeed a travesty; sometimes a productive response to critics is to humbly own up to the Church’s failings in the past, and to try to guard ourselves against such un-Biblical acts in the future. Like the medieval Church, there are many viewpoints that we assume to be Biblical which really are not (such as geocentrism; you can take your pick of modern analogies).
Just trying out this "post by email" thing...
I’ve never done it before! Pretty cool OK, so, today I:
- slept in
- made eggs & grits
- watched the Aliens special features disc
- tumbled
- read a few chapters of The Silmarilion
- tumbled
- napped
- rode my bike to Wendy’s and ate a Bacon Deluxe cheeseburger for dinner
- rode to Fred Meyer to buy Red Vines and Bugles
- watched the entire last disc of The Office Season 5
- learned how to post to tumblr by email
What a day!
Good night, tumblrers!
[Edit: Note to self: tumbling by email preserves no editing features]
We use the term ‘glory of God’ so often that it tends to lose its biblical force. But the sun is no less blazing, and no less beneficial, because people ignore it.
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John Piper on “Rebuilding Some Basics of Bethlehem: The Centrality of the Glory of God” |
A mother’s touch
(AP Photo courtesy Miami Metrozoo / November 6, 2009) This handout photo provided by the Miami Metrozoo shows an unnamed female giraffe being cleaned by her mother Kita at the Miami Metrozoo. The calf was born last Tuesday, and weighed in at 135 lbs. and stands almost 6 ft. tall.(photo and caption via Chicago Tribune)
via allcreatures
Ornamental fish expo
(AP photo by Wally Santana / November 6, 2009) Two Barbour’s seahorses are seen at the Taiwan International Aquarium Expo in Taipei, Taiwan. The expo is one of Asia’s biggest ornamental fish and accessories exhibition for the aquatic fish industry
(photo and caption via Chicago Tribune)
