Jots and Tittles

Gah.  Today's the first day of school for most people, so here I am, all alone, since I don't start until tomorrow.  Actually, I'm kind of very ok with having Tuesdays completely off (the irony of the situation being, now that I have Tuesdays off, Troy doesn't.  Heh.) - it gives me time to do stuff that needs to be done.  Like going to the post office and whatnot.  And if I'm lucky I might still get to have lunch with my boy.

But today's also cramps day, meaning all that stuff I thought I wanted to do either won't get done because I'm curling up in misery with a heating pad, or will get done but I'll be miserable the whole time.  Without the heating pad.  I do intend to run to King Soopers later and get some ibuprofen because we're out, and that's not acceptable.  I needs my painkillers.  So King Soopers will be first, and the post office will have to wait.  Speaking of King Soopers, I think I finally might have figured out some way of keeping my receipts where I'll actually remember to put them.  I think.  So we'll see how that works out, only it's not exactly the most... organized of systems.  Still, it'll be more than I've done before, so that's something.  Woot.  And, hey, at least I know the cramps mean that my body is doing something it never did before, so that's something.  I'd rather have cramps and be regular than not have cramps and bleed to death.

At least I'm not in Ashley's position.  She had to go to the hospital this morning, which is scary... I can't say all of why as I don't know if she'd want that broadcast, but she's in a lot of pain and she doesn't really know what's going on.  Luckily her dad came down and took her, so she has him with her.  I totally would have taken her and bugger the cramps, but I definitely know how much more reassuring it is to have your parents with you when wandering into the hospital, rather than just your roommate. :)  But all of y'alls who read this monstrosity of a journal, keep her in your prayers.  I'll try to keep updates going, and if I start to slack just shoot me a reminder comment.

Yarrgh.  It's amazing how my thoughts can just change over the course of a day or two.  Sunday, I was all kinds of excited about God and how amazingly awesome He is, and His creation, and the beauty of it all, and... yeah.  Elegant is also a good word for that, by the way.  And then today, just because my body has gone all postal on me, I'm like "blah blah, I hate the world" like it suddenly isn't God's anymore, or isn't beautiful or something.  Gah.  Stupid me. 

But I have been spending a lot of time reading apologetics stuff.  I'm continually amazed at all the conflicting beliefs I held, and how often the secular one is just ludicrous.  Like evolution, for example.  I'm sorry, but the burden of proof is on the evolutionists, and I just don't see it.  After something like 180 years since Darwin proposed the theory and people started really digging in to the fossil record, we haven't found a single missing link.  Everything that seemed to be a missing link was later proven to be just a stunted or deformed version of some species we already knew - like Lucy, who turned out to be a pygmy chimpanzee.  Or that guy they thought was a Neanderthal and turned out to be a really old man with arthritis.  Or that bird/lizard thing which turned out to be not at all bird and all lizard.  There's literally NO evidence for evolution as it is traditionally understood!  And then there's that "Punctuated Equilibrium" crap, where they try to say that "oh, well, of course there's gaps in the fossil record, because there were these periods where things just evolved reallyreallyfast all of a sudden and then stopped."  Which anybody with a brain can tell is completely pulled out from where the sun don't shine.  Honestly, what explanation could you possibly provide for a ludicrous  assertion like that?  If you're going to claim that there was some period of intense radiation from... something... that caused this rapidfire evolution, you better be able to find evidence of that.  We know that radiation lasts for freaking ever  - and even when it's gone, there are chemical changes in the very soil that will show pretty clearly what happened.  So, until you find evidence for that, your theory is still a pile of crap.  But it's amazing how many people willfully blind themselves to that fact, because the alternative is just so hard to face.  God is a scary idea, if you're against His existence.  And of course nobody wants to be wrong.

There was one argument I encountered, though, that I'd never seen before, but I found very impressive.  It comes from SETI, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.  The basic plan is to scan the universe, or as much of it as we can reach from Earth, looking for radio signals that exert a pattern of some recognizable sort - like a sort of alien morse code.  Just a recognizable pattern, instead of the randomness of background noise in space, would be enough for SETI to claim that its mission was successful, and that they had found intelligent life outside of planet Earth.  Think about that.  All they need to claim an intelligence behind the signal is to find a pattern in it.  And if they found it, I think they'd have a hard time finding someone who didn't agree that some sort of intelligence was behind that signal.  Now, that being the case (signal pattern = intelligence behind it), what do we do with DNA?  Let's see.  We have a series of four bases, A, T, G, C.  From these bases, patterns are built up that hold instructions to run an entire living being.  HMMMMMMMM.  Do you think that PATTERN might signal INTELLIGENCE behind it?  What a thought - and it had never even occurred to me before.  So that was spiffy.

Well, friends, I can't take this anymore - I've gots to get me some painkillers before I try to kill something else.  It's a good thing Aspen isn't up here, because I might grab me some dark chocolate as well.  And if she ate it, if the chocolate didn't kill her, I would.  ;)

-Jaya-