Creation vs. Evolutuion

QUICK REPOST FROM 2/15/2009….new post coming soon.

I was reading a bedtime story about the Creation of Earth from a children’s Bible when my then four-year old son argued, “NO. People are from apes. I read it from science (books).”  I always admire my kids’ critical and analytical thinking and I encourage them to learn from science books and videos. So, for a moment, I found myself feeling stuck.  How do I convince a child about the Word of God without discouraging his “scientific” mind?  Somehow, I had to be creative.  I basically told him that evolution would have only been possible with God’s blessing.  So what is the church’s stand anyway?

Pius XII has already affirmed that there is no conflict between evolution and the doctrine of the faith regarding man and his vocation, provided that we do not lose sight of certain fixed points….Today, more than a half-century after the appearance of that encyclical, some new findings lead us toward the recognition of evolution as more than an hypothesis. In fact it is remarkable that this theory has had progressively greater influence on the spirit of researchers, following a series of discoveries in different scholarly disciplines. The convergence in the results of these independent studies — which was neither planned nor sought — constitutes in itself a significant argument in favor of the theory. Theories of evolution which, because of the philosophies which inspire them, regard the spirit either as emerging from the forces of living matter, or as a simple epiphenomenon of that matter, are incompatible with the truth about man.—-Pope John Paul II

Whoa!  That’s way over my head, let alone my four-year old son.  I do like a story that our pastor once told us during one of his sermons:

A mother was explaning Creation to his son when he argued, “Dad said that humans are from monkeys.”  His mom replied, “We are both right.  My side family were created by God.  While his side of the family were related to monkeys.”   

What would you tell my boy?  Which came first?  The chicken or the monkey?

  

I don’t know.  I still like telling them that God made people out of bread dough—whereas Filipinos were baked just right!

Published in:  on November 23, 2009 at 2:53 pm Comments (11)
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Put your own caption: rice

Am (rice milk), aroz caldo (chicken and rice soup), champorado (chocolate rice porridge), bibingka (rice cake), pancit (rice noodles), suman (rice wrap), rice krispies, white rice, brown rice, jasmine rice, sticky rice, dirty rice, boiled rice, fried rice, rice with coffee, Vanilla Rice,…aaah!  Rice has always part of the Filipino life wherever they might be.   Hey, real Pinoys eat rice!

I remember drinking hot rice milk as a child.  I remember eating  aroz caldo with my friends when I was a little boy.  I remember gluing school projects with rice.  I remember girls laughing at me because I had rice on my shirt, my pants, my shoes, my hair, and my teeth.  I remember my dad supporting me through college by cooking me rice every morning.  I remember winning my love of my life over rice.  I remember people throwing rice at us during our wedding.  My kids’ first solid food was rice.  Their favorite meal is spam, egg, and rice.  Eventually, I would probably die of diabetes because of rice.  And when that happens, I wish people would toss rice in my grave. 

And on the third day, I would RICE again.

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Published in:  on November 18, 2009 at 9:36 pm Comments (150)
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Put your own caption: Manny Pacquiao

“I just think I’m an ordinary fighter,” Pacquiao said. “When I fight a good fighter, sometimes I can beat him. “  And as many fighters like to proclaim themselves as the best, Manny continues to give props to the business, his opponents, his trainers, his family, his country, God, and his fans.  

He is hailed as the pound-for-pound king  of our generation and is argued to be better than the all-time greats like Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray, and Marvin Hagler.  “It is not for me to say where I am in the history of boxing,” said Pacquiao. “  I just try to win my fights and represent my country.  I don’t think too much about these things.”  Besides,  he is too busy thinking of ways to entertain his fans, help the unfortunate, and keep the peace in the Philippines.  

Now that is a true champion!  Give him the Noble Peace Prize now!  Haha…but, not the Grammys.

manny cartoon

"No tenks, Ser. Dey nid me hir in de Pilipins, Ser."

 Other captions considered:

 SUGAR:  C’mon, Manny.  Join our club. 

MANNY:  No tenks, Ser.  I’m gooing to de karaoke bar wit Pridi en Buboy later po, Ser.

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MANNY:  You guys are my peborits.  Smookie Robinson, Jims Ingram, en Isaac Heys.  Bis R en B singars!

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SUGAR:  Don’t be shy, Pacman. Show us your championship belts.  

MANNY:  Ay!  Wala po naman talaga akong suot po, Ser.  ( I’m not really wearing anything, Sir).

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MANNY: Bakit n’yo ko minumulto?  Diba buhay po pa naman kayo? (Why are you haunting me?   Aren’t you guys still alive?)                    

Now it’s your turn…

Directly from the AXylum

This has been a very painful week for me.  From dropping a 15lb drill on my foot to getting a bad reaction from a tetanus shot.  I was not able to make a new vlog for this week.  So I decided to invite one of our fellow bloggers, who share the same wholesomeness as I do, as a guest vlogger.  And so…. tantararantantan… from the planet of the…well, we don’t know yet….AX! 

Enjoy his video about Pinoy male bonding.  Gosh they are so very close.  Uhm, uncomfortably close… (I need a hand sanitizer here, please!  …for my eyes!).  Mr. Nonsense presents…    AX!

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Boys Do Fall in Love and Insanity

Last night, I was really thinking if I will be embedding the Christmas Party presentation of our department held last year. Since my stay at the company I am working right now, I  had been in every Christmas presentations..  But if I will link the youtube videos here, I will be giving personal information on where I work and whatnots.. so I thought I will just make a humour post as Mr. Nonsense might take a long pause vlogging because he was not feeling well.. Right this morning, I thought I should upload a video as a traditional post of the Daddy of the Blogosphere (Er, do not be mislead as  Father Fiel is called the Father of the Blogosphere, both are different in their own idiosyncrasies. One fell in love with a beautiful, blonde, nature-lover lady and their kids while the other one fell in love with humanity, the universe and the Divine.)

So yes, Boys Do Fall in Lurve. (They are my high school classmates.. T’was taken when each one is pursuing a college degree.  Go find me!) Who is me by the way?

Mino vs h1n1

Seems as though every livestock we eat can get us sick.  First the bird flu.  Then madcow.  And now, swine flu!  What’s next?  Rover Fever?

Mino vs 1The H1N1, also affectionately called “hiny,”has been a global pain-in-the-ass this year.   Many of the schools here in Washington State were shut down for days  during the scare.  My workplace was also hit.  Many patients were infected and isolated, while a colleague ended up in the ICU. At our church.  drinking wine, shaking hands, and using holy water are now being discouraged. 

Although the symptoms can be more severe, Influenza A (H1N1) behaves much like the common seasonal influenza.  Children, the elderly, and people with existing illnesses or weakend immune system are at higher risk.  For information about the swine flu, visit the CDC website

Watch the video below to learn how to protect yourself.

 

I bet Al-Qaida is laughing at us now for eating all them pork.

(to be continued)

Published in:  on November 10, 2009 at 7:17 am Comments (114)
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