I took Parker and Josiah to the Baltimore aquarium yesterday. If you live in the area you need to check it out. A-mazing!

I never cease to marvel at God’s creativity. I’m looking at some of these multi-colored fish and frogs and saying, “God, you rock!” You can’t help but laugh at some of the fish because they are so funky. And you can’t help gasp at some of the fish because of the spectacular coloring.

Can I share something?

I don’t want to overstep my intellectual boundaries, but I have no idea how someone can visit a place like the Baltimore aquarium (or my recent trip to the Galapagos) and not believe in an Intelligent Designer or Creative Designer.

I think we falsely assume that Darwin himself was an evolutionist in the godless sense of the word. Not true. He credited God with creation. I find no contradiction in giving God credit for evolution. I don’t want to open a can of worms here, but of course things evolve. That is the way God designed the universal software. Do I believe we evolved from apes? Nope. Scripture says that God created Adam from the dust of the earth. But I marvel at evolution as a feature of creation! I think we’ve created a false dichotomy. Instead of fearing the e-word we ought to celebrate God’s creativity in the form of evolution. And I mean that in the most straight-forward way possible. Our adapatibility is an amazing testament to God’s ingenuity.

In The Origin of the Species, Darwin says:

Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows. There is granduer in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.

Didn’t mean to go off on a tangent