The last week, being the first week of instruction here at Fresno State, has been full of classes - but not homework. It's sort of getting pulled behind a boat on water skis - it takes a bit of time for you to get out of the water after the boat's started pulling. In this case, the homework has not come yet, but I know it will!
Since I have no homework, I try and study some, but after a while, even that comes to a dead end. Thus, in absence of studying and homework, I will write a quick update.
The last week and a half have been full of school for both Corey and I. Mostly engineering/surveying courses for both of us, plus one honors get together for both of us. However, as part of the Smittcamp Honors program, I have to do some honors GE stuff (let out a big, sarcastic, "yippee" with as much solemness as you can muster, and you'll be close to how I feel about those classes), which means on top of the other classes I have humanities. Whee-hoo. At least my humanities professor is more grounded in earth than most college professor and isn't liberal. For example, today he went on and on about how we take a simple thing - bread - for granted and don't appreciate the work and effort that went into that piece of bread (I definitely agree, we need to be grateful for everything that is given to us - "every good and perfect gift comes from above"). He also said that as Americans, we don't truly appreciate hunger (and he added that pretty much everywhere, hunger is a lot less than it used to be) - we are never truly "hungry". I agree again. But then he'll turn around and say that truth can only be found by thought - that truth is relative, basically. I don't agree. Then he'll turn around and say something that is consistent with Scripture, then he'll turn around again and say something inconsistent - needless to say he is quite the mix of truth and un-truth.
My engineering professors, as engineers themselves, are all good teachers, but very technical. I don't mind technical, though (I wouldn't be in engineering if I did mind). They are all very interesting courses, and I find them enjoyable.
Then, of course, Corey and I both have a geology course. In that course, of course (pun intended), there is a lot of secular, evolutionist, old-earth talk. If you get past that, however, the course is very interesting - I've always thought rocks were fascinating. The earth is so incredibly complex! For instance, the earth is in the perfect location in the Solar System - right in the center of the "inhabitable zone" a very thin circle of space that is the only place that sustains life. Then, the sun itself is just right - not too hot or too huge. Then of course, we are in the perfect place in the galaxy that we don't die with the force exerted on us (the galaxy spins, too).
Also, the sun periodically sends intense solar radiation our way - if we had no protection, we would be obliterated. Well, the earth just "happens" to have a magnetic field (only because the earth has an iron core) that wards off that harmful radiation. Then we have the moon in just the right spot, the perfect atmosphere, liquid water, and countless other things that are just right and point not to old-earth evolutionist processes and random chance but to a Creator who knowingly crafted and created a beautiful creation. Clearly we are fearfully and wonderfully made!
I hear these things said in class (even the professor says that things are "just right" for earth) and wonder why creationism is so scoffed at. There is so much proof! But sinful man works to suppress the truth, and without the work of the Holy Spirit, they will not see.
Anyway, that's all for now!
Casey
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