It's a Small World

Disclaimer: This is not about the ride at Disneyland. I am not a fan of the ride at Disneyland. In fact, I am a great opponent of the ride at Disneyland. I really enjoy Disneyland, even though I was almost Killed by a tree at Disneyland. I will tell you about that another time. But, I can not stand the ride.

Last night, I went to a presentation with Diane, the kids, The cousin Tanner and Emily's friend Sarah hosted by the Arizona Origins Science Association. This particular presentation was a lecture by Ian Juby. Ian Juby has a terrible website, but some interesting info.

The lecture was about the evidences for a Global Flood. In his words, overwhelming evidences for a global flood. He also shared a model for how the continents could have logically been formed by a global flood. When I was at School in Texas, Diane and I developed an interest in the whole Creation/Intelligent Design topic and we have been checking it out since then.

The first place we went to was Dr. Carl Baugh's Creation Evidences Museum. Dr. Baugh was doing some wacky things, like building a hyperbaric chamber and wearing rose colored glasses. He explained that his research suggested that the earth's atmosphere was denser prior to a worldwide flood and the chamber was to simulate the density. He was going to use it to grow plants and the like for research. The glasses, well, that is another topic.

Incidentally, Ian Juby has been a regular on Dr. Baugh's television show on TBN. Not that I recommend TBN for anyone, but......

We also heard Dennis Peterson lecture at School. I remember that Diane was irritated, because they picked one of the days when he had some cool stuff to share to go on and on with the "time of worship". Nothing like 23 verses of "I'll Fly Away" and 16 rounds of "You Are Exalted" to ruin a good creation science lecture. In any case, we liked Dennis so much and we discovered that he lived not far from us when we lived in Sacramento. So, we had him come speak at our Church and got to share lunch with him at Chipotle.

Here are a couple of other recommends from last night:
Dr. Walt Brown's Book, In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood
Ian Juby's upcoming weekly show in Canada (and Online), Genesis Week

Speaking of it being a small world, cousin Tanner's dad is with the Border Patrol in California. The other night, I met a guy that used to work with him when he did temporary duty in Ajo a few years back. He remembered him as someone who came on temporary duty and actually liked to work.