Dim-witted Discover Magazine

The first edition of Discover Magazine for 2014 was a summation of the top 100 scientific stories of 2013.  Coming in at number 34 was this article:

A few personal thoughts:

1.  Discover Magazine is NOT a Christian-operated publication. 

Source: (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/06/23/science-and-religion-are-not-compatible/#.UvJflEJdV-g)

2.  Researches (experts in their field of study) didn't just find one piece of evidence, but four.

3.  Researches readily admitted that the tools must have been crafted by human hands.

4.  Popular evolutionary thinking is that Neanderthals were dim-witted, which made this discovery so much more confusing.

5.  The editor of this article only gives his readers two options to explain this discovery.

6.  This discovery flies in the face of evolutionary hominid teaching.

7.  Nothing about this discovery disagrees with Scripture.  In fact, the Biblical account is supported by this fantastic discovery.  God made Adam and Eve with brilliant minds from the beginning.  

8.  The Bible shows people of great intellect in the book of Genesis.  One such account of a man named Tubal-Cain, who already knew how to forge all kinds of tools out of bronze and iron (Genesis 4:22).  Doesn't sound like a dim-witted Neanderthal to me...

Try again, Discover Magazine.

The "eyes" have it! (Part 1)

Happy New Year!  I hope you are still going strong on your resolutions. If you haven't resolved to do any improving this year, it's not too late! As I was reading through the OYB today, I came across a passage that caused me to add a new resolution to my 2014 list.  Feel free to add it to yours as well.

Here's the passage:

Your eye is a lamp that provides light for your body.  When your eye is good, your whole body is filled with light.  But when your eye is bad, your whole body is filled with darkness.  (Matthew 6:22-23a)

Was 2013 a victorious year for you in the faith?  Or, like many Christians that I've talked to, did you stumble and fall in areas that you now regret?  Yeah, me too.  According to this passage, the eyes truly are the window to your soul.  If my eyes are good, then my whole body is filled with light!  That's so encouraging!  

The resolution I'm adding this year is:  KEEP MY EYES GOOD.

It doesn't make much sense grammatically speaking, but I will know exactly what it means:

1. Put the Bible before my eyes every morning.

2. Close my eyes in prayer and focus on the God I love and serve.

3. Watch movies and internet clips that honor God.

4. Look for opportunities around me to share my faith and love people.

5. Get my eyes away from my smartphone and instead focus on my wife and son.

These are just some ways I hope to improve this year.  Praying I can look back at the end of 2014 and say with a big smile that "I am different than I was a year ago!".

"There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect."

~ G.K. Chesterton