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Heyo!Yeah, take a guess
Gordon
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i really like how you composed this piece ^^ describes me quite well too (: 
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Thanks for the 'fav! (:
I took this photograph because I'm in medical school and also spending a lot of time w/ church activities, etc. Sometimes it feels a bit schizophrenic!
I occasionally tell people that "Med school is like an abusive mistress..."
... not that I know what having an abusive mistress is like.
Gordon
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hahahah hopefully not ~ but nice quote anyway 
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Hello Gordon, pleased to ''meet'' you
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Thanks for sharing this dev. w/ me. That's a good acrostic for BIBLE
Gordon
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You are welcome, but your photo was prettier for sure
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My mom's an RN and she deals a lot with the kind of stuff you described on the :linkchristians: version. God's strengh and wisdom be with you when you're in hard and dire times.
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They there
Thanks for the encouragement!
what's an RN?
Gordon
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RN stands for Registered Nurse, it's basically a step up from an LPN (Lisenced Practical Nurse). But, for whatever area you're studying for, good luck!
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thats so cool..... awesome idea..
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Thanks!
It's a nice blue, which is why I chose to use it. It was also the only one with nothing but "Holy Bible" written across it.
Gordon
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saawweeeet yeah it is awesome.... besides jsut being the awesomest book ever anyways!!
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Ah! I love the lighting and the meaning you can get from this picture.
A true
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Heyo!
Well... shux. Thanks!
Gordon
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Thanks
What do you mean by controversy?
I think that just being in medicine is only 1/2 the job. I've heard it this way before: The best a doctor can do is delay death.
Yeah, morbid
Hrm... I wonder if this pic will ever be mistaken for something like "faith healing". That'd be funny.
Gordon
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Hah that would be funny...
Nah I was thinking more along the lines of science as well. Science as in who made the world, god, or did we just evolve from monkeys like doctors are saying.
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That's quite a question, isn't it?
What do you think? Are we the distant relatives of monkeys, or were we put here by some Great Other?
I'm all ears
Gordon
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I have no idea to be honest...
I'm christian, or i'm meant to be, but i need some kind of fact or piece of solid evidence that god created the earth, or that we evolved from monkeys...
Sure we've evolved heaps...but that's to be expected.
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I'm a biology major so it helps to have some of the insights from that field. I'll give one example, and then recommend a very good book for creationism.
Fruit flies - the biologist's workhorse. Interestingly, their mutation rate is phenominally low. In fact, in order for any mutation to happen, enough to affect any change, we have to bombard them with either carcinogens or radiation at a level so high that you'd never see it in nature. What results is flies with different wing types, body shapes, or eye colors. At first, I thought--hey, look--new eye colors. But then, each and every one of those documented changes over the years that we've worked with them, they've been defects, never a benefit (they're blind, or don't fly well, for example). Every once in a while, you'd see the textbook showcasing the FOUR-winged fruit fly (neat trick - I actually got to see one in the lab). Except they can't fly since, guess what, the extra wings don't have muscle structures attached to them, and they become too cumbersome and render the fly incapable of flight. Fat lot of good that does
Now a great book is Lee Strobel's "Case for a Creator". I'm not sure if it was this book or another, but there's a fun bit somewheres w/ a bunch of deathbed confessions of people who discovered all of those "prehistoric" humans. Turned out a bunch of them were either monkeys, reconstructed skeletons, or human bones assembled funny.
Have fun
Gordon
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I think people nowadays are borderlining desperation to know the truth of the origins of our world.
That's a good example of the fly and it's defects. Creepy and gross though lol
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Good times
Sometimes people don't think far enough. Did God create the world? Or was God not there at all or ever? (the latter is the line of atheists, which is why there is such a big push for evolution everywhere) What will happen to 'purpose' and 'meaning' in the absence of God? Now that's a line of reasoning worth pursuing... The great philosophers of the world that deny God's existance have all bleak, bleak ends. Thomas Hobbes said; "If I had the whole world, I would give it to live one day." Their utter fear of death should drive the doubt of God out of anyone present!
Gordon
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Yeah, that's true too. I've never heard of that quote before. But the one thing that's always bugged me since I was a little girl (and I remember asking my scripture teacher this one sunday) was that if God had made the earth and everything in it...then where did God come from?
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I think that's the amazing part of it. God has no beginning. Of all the other deities of this world, only God calls himself "I AM". Not "I was", or "I once became." The very nature of his name is a present imperfect (ie. continuing) verb, illustrating his eternality.
I've also heard, philosophically, that there must be a pre-existing First Cause (aka God). Picture the universe. Everything in it has a cause (really, try imagining something, and there's a cause to it). You can trace anything and verything back as far as you can, there must be something that *begins* it. Does God have a cause? If He does, then that means there must be something that began Him. Well, does "the cause of God" need a cause? If we asking backwards like that, then we have an circular, infinite regression - which is nonsense, philosophically. Therefore, there must be a First Mover that is cause of the set of all existing things of this universe, which of itself does not have a cause (the tracing backwards of causes HAS to start somewhere).
The actual argument is a little longer than that. But... 1) it's 4:00 AM so I'm not thinking too straight at the moment
Gordon
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If that was summarising, then I tip my hat to you good sir lol. I think you're waaaay smarter than me...lol
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Haha... Thanks.
Honestly, I heard it from a guest philosopher that came to my school a few years ago.
I was thinking along these lines again in church today. When the concept of the big bang came out, all the non-Christian physicists were in a big stir because that means that the universe had a beginning because it all just *begs* the question of the necessity of a First Cause to start the very realm of space-time and all that's within. Einstein had issues with it, and came up with the "Cosmological Constant" to explain away that very fact. Of course, that didn't fly with the mathematicians and was quickly taken out. In fact, Stephen Hawking comes up with the concept of "imaginary time" to mathematically explain away the starting point of the universe. But, his words, "When one goes back to the real time in which we live, however, there will still appear to be singularities [starting points]."
Newton, Pascal, Mendel, Copernicus, all were Christian, scientific minds thinking after the thoughts of their Creator. I think it's more and more out of desperation today, as you can see from Einstein and Hawking, that atheists are trying everything to remove the signs of God from his handiwork.
Hope all this helps.
Gordon
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I think that the more you think about the creation of the earth, and of God, that we turn towards the thought of science more of the creater of lifes existance because we dont have solid evidence to back up our theories. aBut then again...we don't really have a concrete solution when it comes to science...
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Thanks
It feels like a very personal piece, since I'm so into both medicine and my own spiritual life.
Gordon
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