I don’t reblog very often, but I like the quality of the following piece. It is written by someone who describes himself this way: “As a scientist, I am fascinated by the world and the research that elucidates it for us. As a Christian, I believe that truth matters and it is meant to be shared.”
The blog (Age of Rocks) tries to explain how a Christian can be faithful to his belief and still realize the Earth is more than 6,000 years old. Through the many pages of his blog (it has been around for 5 years), he presents a highly readable account of thought processes some of us find contradictory, but can not fail to appreciate. Following is one sample of his work, an examination of the Young-Earth take on the Grand Canyon. I offer it as a teaser, representative of the quality of the writing over at the Age of Rocks blog:
“The writing on the wall”
It was a Friday afternoon like any other. Katrina pulled into the driveway promptly at 4:30 PM upon returning from her weekly exercise class and a much needed shopping run. For Katrina, it was a three-hour sanctuary in which she could recuperate from the constant demands of Molly, her energetic toddler. That role was temporarily assigned to Sarah, a young neighborhood girl with comparable creative energies.
“How was she?” asked Katrina, while struggling to close the door through a web of heavy shopping bags. “Did she cause you any trouble?”
“Not at all,” replied Sarah, “I think she finally fell asleep.”
Carefully nudged against the cracked door, however, Katrina’s motherly peer was immediately stolen by an unfamiliar disarray. “That’s not wallpaper…”, she thought silently to herself. With a slight rush of adrenaline, she nervously flipped on the light to find the new ‘Ivory White’ paint job ruined by chaotic swaths of…
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