DISQUS

Survival of the fittest may be the law of nature, but it's not the law of God. You CAN have both, no? The law of the flesh, and the law of the Spirit.

It's quiet and solid, and here and there it might get tweaked to up the sonic qualities and diction, but I like it. Technically it wouldn't be a sonnet what with the couplets and all, but I've seen fourteeners in couplets that are close enough to sonnet-ude.

Dear David:

By the same token, I'll use your words here, "If God is who he says He is (powerful, creative, in control), then why..." can't he allow things to evolve and be the Agent of that change. You have to allow for that, no?

Just checking.

Me gusta la poema.

A book, The Science of God, does an interesting job of reconciling faith and science. The very short version...at some point God takes the evolving "ape-man" and gives him a soul. This would be Adam. OK, this is SO reductive to the entire book, but read it, and at least be open to the fact that God is intelligent and has a hand in things of this world. The coolest thing about the book is the idea of the expanding universe and time, as associated with the various ages. Time (as Einstein proved) is malleable, and it stretches out according to his very famous formula. E=(delta)mc(squared)

I like to tell atheists I believe in Intelligent design, and fundamentalist Christians that I believe in evolution. I don't think there's a conflict. Can you find God in "punctuated equilibrium"? I can.

Better a president who listens, than one who doesn't. Better a president who twitters than one who is learning to use the internet. Better a president who is clear about his religious beliefs than one who seems to hide it. Better a president who is distracted by the American people than a president distracted by the war machine.