Do You Really Believe What The Bible Says?

On a homeschool forum a lady raised a question about something that she read in Apologia's Exploring Creation With Zoology 3 book. The book mentions in the first chapter, which is available to read online as a sample, that all animals at creation were vegetarian. It has the scripture to back up what it is saying. Her question was "Is this a common Christian belief?" She stated that she is a Christian and had never heard this before.

Please understand, I am not the final judge of "who is or is not a Christian", but I do sometimes wonder why people will say they are Christians, yet when they are faced with some of the *hard* to believe things, they question the Bible. The original question asker wanted to know if this was a common belief. Some people responded yes, some no. Some responded by saying things like how it would be ridiculous to think that a T-Rex would have had a vegetarian diet. I really think, however, that how a person views those first few chapters of Genesis says a lot about the person and their beliefs.

Think about it: If you do not believe that God is capable of doing things that seem irrational to us (T-Rex eating plants, whales and such not eating other sea creatures) why do they think the Bible states it a certain way? And what, exactly is God capable of doing, if you feel this way? I really thought when I was younger that it did not matter if a person believed that the earth was 6,000 or billions of years old. But, if a person does not believe God from the outset of those first few chapters, I wounder why they should believe ANY of the Bible.

Some of the people who responded to this lady's question gave the verses showing why this is believed

Genesis 1:28-30:28And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth." 29And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. 30And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food."

and

Genesis 9:1-3 1And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 2 The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. 3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.

Yet, they are people saying they don't believe it! Have you ever come across someone who can be shown a verse and still say "Well, I still just don't believe it."? Hmm.... I would never do that! Or would I? Do I really believe that I am am going to have to give an account for every careless word? If I believe that I would choose my words more carefully than if I not believe it. Do I really believe that children are a blessing? Am I treating my children like blessings if I yell at them, or speak those careless words to them? So, I think you see where I am going with this one. We all have areas where we need to improve. The question is, are you seeking to improve, or are you saying I just don't believe that way? What say you?

Fun With The Sun

Wrapping up our sun study was lots of fun. We learned a lot. One thing about our study kind of bothered me. Our science curriculum is written for Christians. So why in the world would we have to waste yummy chocolate by melting it in the sun?!?!?!?!? What kind of person does that?!??!?! (obviously we are just the kind of people to do it)

Wow, I need to work on my figure. That shadow looks like a Sasquatch.


Nathaniel had the biggest spot of sunlight



Benjamin used a medium sized spot of sunlight.


Samuel used a teeny tiny spot of sun. (Part of our experiment was to see how fast the chocolate melted with each size spot.)


Check out the heat radiating from the candy!!


What happens to 1/4 of a chocolate bar when left alone with Nathaniel for nearly an hour with a magnifying glass.


The plate held up pretty well to all that heat. Must be those awesome people who make Chinet so special. ;-}


We made pinhole viewers today. Samuel looks so observant with his, doesn't he?


Cool, huh? It actually worked!!

Geeked out fun

Here are the pictures I promised earlier:


Benjamin dancing to a goofy song about the sun (the sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace, where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees...)


Watching the sun burn holes in leaves


Samuel's holey leaf


Benjamin was too impatient to use a green leaf. (Actually, he was pretty impatient on this. I did most of it.)


Good thing it didn't burn all the way through his LEG!!


What it looks like from the back side of the leaf


Nathaniel's leaf


Looking studly in their 3-D glasses


By the movie sign


My guys under the Saturn V. Samuel did not like the sun being in his face.


Mark made fun of me for laying on the sidewalk, but I thought looking up the rocket was neat.


I TOUCHED A ROCKET!!!!


Me too. Would you put me down now??


Saturn I (far left), Mercury Redstone (far right) Not sure about the two in between. (Nathaniel had to tell the two I do have labeled)


Base of the Saturn V


Middle of the Saturn V


Top of the Saturn V


A-12 SR-71 Blackbird (Thanks to Nathaniel again for the name)


Blackbird's missile


The boys standing in front of Blackie's missile, just to show how BIG this thing is


Stopping to smell the flowers


Welcome to the US Space and Rocket Center-Home of Space Camp


By the monument of Miss Baker- the first American animal to fly into space and return alive


See what I mean


Miss Baker gets a five-feet tall monument and her hubby Big George just gets a stone on the ground.


Mark and the boys at the Purple Heart Monument


Closer up of the monument.

We did not pay for a museum pass, because my undiagnosed ADD family (me being the main one) gets bored trying to do a movie and museum. We just wanted to see Fly Me To the Moon before they stop playing it. I was surprised to see that there were so many things available for us to see free.

Wonders of the Universe

We have been working hard on the science so far. Of course the boys think doing science is more of a treat than a chore, so that is very nice. One thing that they had to do is to come up with a mnemonic phrase to help them remember the order the planets in the solar system. I gave them the option of working together or each one coming up with their own. So they chose each man for himself. Benjamin wrote: My vary exsited monkey jumped six new patterns.(HMMM... methinks we had better get to work on spelling) Samuel said: Mom Vader excelled at many jumping stations under Nathaniel's presidency. Nathaniel came up with My very excited mom jumped seventeen unbreakable non-horizontal poles. Nathaniel and Samuel even illustrated theirs.


Today we made a model of the solar system using balloons to represent the planets and sun.


Yesterday we read a book about Galileo. In the book it talked about him dropping two balls of different weights off the leaning tower of Pisa. We do not have anything that tall, but we still decided to try it from the fort.

Dad instructs the boys on what to do


Oops! They let go at different times. Try again!!


Better. Would have been even better if mom had snapped the camera just a second sooner so you could actually see the balls.

Science Fun

Hmmm..... lovely display for the end table huh? That is the price for having a chid who loves science. Nathaniel signed up for a summer science club with Quick Study Labs. His first lesson is on growth. He is going to root a carrot, grow crystals, and root sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes are to be planted in the yard and harvested this fall. (I wonder how much of THAT Mr. "I don't like to get dirty" is actually going to do)
Oh well, at least it made him smile for a moment

Bible vs. Science: Can't we all just get along?????

Let me begin by clarifying something first and foremost: I am a young earth, seven day creationist. I do not now, nor have I ever thought that the Biblical account of creation was fantasy or mythology. I actually used to think that this was not that big of a deal, but time has a way of changing how you think. I see now that the way you view the universe can affect the way you look at other people.



Ok, having said all that, now I'll get back to the real point of this blog. I read a blog a few days that was talking about how all homeschoolers are religious nuts that are anti-science. Ok, I admit, I am nuts. That has nothing to with homeschool. I was a nutcase before. I am a Christian. Some people translate that into I am religious. I think of Christian as more of a lifestyle than a religion. Anti-Science is something I do not consider myself. I feel like we can learn more about God by studying His creation.

Evolution is not simply a theory that is going to go away on its own. It is something that is never going to be able to be proven, however there are many in the scientific community who believe it and stand by it fiercely. we have reached a point where if someone admits to NOT believing it they are looked at as the village idiot. And let's face it, nobody wants to be the idiot. So, rather than be called an idiot they just agree to what the mainstream says. Reminds me of a verse: Romans 1:22Professing to be wise, they became fools. Let's look at a few reasons why evolution can not be true.



The very basis of evolution is not scientifically possible. Yes, I understand that there are people right now who are thinking I am stupid and have no idea what I am talking about. Let me explain: years and years before Charles Darwin came up with his ideas people wondered how life came into being. There were some scientists who believed that life that had to come from other forms of life. There were others who believed that life could just spontaneously happen. So this big debate we have is nothing new. We are still arguing the same thing, just using different components. Francesco Redi used maggots to make a point. (Ewww) He took meat in jars and left some open. Others he covered up with gauze, allowing the meat to get air. Open jars ended up getting covered in maggotts. Gauzed jars had maggots on top but not in. He then kept some of the maggots to see what they would turn into to. Obviously, they grew into flies. He then placed dead flies into a jar with meat. Nothing happened.

Take Luis Pasteur. His germ theory was that germs did not just appear out of thin air. They spread from one thing to another. He used broth in his experiments. (I like that much better than Redi's work thankyouverymuch) He put his boiled broth into these containers with long tubes to filter the air and keep out any dust particles. No germs grew in the broth on its own. Germs get into things that are not protected from the outside. They don't just appear out of nowhere. This was at the time perceived as the final conclusion to disproving spontaneous generation.

Then we have to fast forward to Darwin. Never mind that other people before have proven that mice did not appear out of dirty hay. We know that crocodiles are not formed from rotting logs at the bottom of the water. Yet he says that all we see, hear, smell, touch, taste and are evolved from one piece of small piece of pond scum blowing up in eternity past. He has no real explanation for how we get from one species to another. (nice little missing links). He offers no explanation for why we have no record of a species evolving in history. He gives us no reason for why we have not evolved into anything higher. And to be quite honest he can get offensive in the way he talks about humans. His own words: "At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausaun has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between in a more civilized state, as we may hope, than even the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla." (Charles Darwin-The Descent of Man) Uhm... kind of different than what the Bible says about people being made inn God's image and all people having value and worth.

This blog has gotten a lot longer than I had intended. I had planned to point out the fact that the Biblical account of creation speaks about each plant and animal reproducing after its own kind. I am pretty sure that my tomato seeds I plan to plant in a few days are going to grow tomatoes. I also planned to point out the fact that evolution takes its order in the same sequence as the Biblical creation (light, sun, stars, planets and moons, water, plants, animals, humans) Maybe another blog on another day.