Fat Bible Bloke's Blog

I'm getting more and more confused And I'm not surprised. People say that Darwin explained everything; but he didn't. Now we've got Darwin and genetics to think about. And their ideas don't match up. And neither can explain everything. Neither debate explains how a sea cucumber might sprout a couple of eyes! Or even why giraffes have long necks. Come on, that's easy; it's so they can reach tasty stuff high up in trees. Really? Have you ever seen a Giraffe drink? A long neck is a dis advantage here! Ouch! That looks painful! O.K. What do you believe, Mr Clever? Simple answer or complicated answer? Simple per-lease! The Bible wasn't interested in how God made the world, plants and you and me. The writers, probably around 4,000 years ago, had no knowledge of modern science; but they were keen to show that the beginning of life, the universe and everything was part of a grand plan and not a freak accident . But ...

So Bishop Ussher messed it up by stating that the world was created by God in 4000BC. A crackpot idea. It's easy to blame someone with hindsight, but his opinion was good enough for the science of the day. The fact the Ussher's dates were then printed in many bibles made them look "official"! Which they never were! That made the problem worse. So when this bloke came along, about 100 years after Ussher ... ... the aggro started getting a bit bitter and twisted. He was Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. Born 1707, Died 1788. What did he say? He said a lot about a lot. He's famous for the "Buffon Needle Problem". If you have well over 10,000 needles and you drop them one-by-one onto a table marked out with straight lines, you can actually calculate pi. Don't tell me needles have got something to do with the Bible Absolutely nothing, but I thought you might be interested. Anyway, his particular claim to fame is ...

So did Charles Darwin believe in God? Actually, for most of his life he did; but he did begin to think that God might have, sort of, set the universe running and then sorting itself out and making itself better. He did stop believing in God when his daughter, Anne Elizabeth, died at the age of 10. She is buried in the graveyard of Great Malvern Priory. Her dad had taken her there to drink the "healthy waters". He was heart-broken when it didn't work.  That must have been tough for him. So it was then that Mr Darwin set out to prove the Bible was rubbish? NO, NO and a thousand times, NO! He knew that his ideas would upset some people and he was saddened by that. But most Christians thought he was simply explaining how God created , not disproving it. For Darwin, it all started with an invitation to take a trip on a boat. HMS Beagle Captain Robert Fitzroy's Second expedition set sail 27th December 1831. Returned to England 2nd October 1836 ...

Life has Landed and humans represent a very small selection of vertebrates, which in turn makes up only about one hundredth of all the living creatures on earth. Then God commanded, “Let the water be filled with many kinds of living beings, and let the air be filled with birds.” So God created the great sea monsters, all kinds of creatures that live in the water, and all kinds of birds. And God was pleased with what he saw. He blessed them all and told the creatures that live in the water to reproduce and to fill the sea, and he told the birds to increase in number. Then God commanded, “Let the earth produce all kinds of animal life: domestic and wild, large and small" and it was done. But surely, everything evolved. Nothing to do with God?  1  is algae, descended from that primeval slime - the very beginnings of life.  2  is a sea cucumber; an animal but not much more than a tube; with food in at the front and poo out at the back. It has no...