Tuesday:

> No God didn't design that...man did. Fix it. He gave you a brain. :)

Like Snoopy said, it was God who made small pox, and for that matter ebola, HIV, hepatitis, etc. We as human being have to live with that truth. God made disease and death.

However, the point I was getting at is that we insist on putting human limitations on an infinite God. Some people believe that the only truth about God is in the Bible and nowhere else. It seems to me that if God is infinite, then why would all of his teaching be limited to the one book? Why not an infinite number of books? Why should God talk in one limited language, when he can talk in infinite languages and forms?

Science is God's language too. If evolution exists, it is because God made it too. The Bible is not the end all and be all of creation. If it is, then God seems very small to me, in fact, a few thousand pages small. The Bible was written for the level of understanding of the ancient Israelites. They were not scientists; they were nomadic shepherds. The Bible does not talk in modern scientific terms because its first audience would not have been able to understand it. Can you imagine what it would have been like if God came to the ancient Israelites and said:

"It occurred to me that life could be made up of self-replicating, evolving macromolecular structures called DNA and proteins. As those structures mutated and evolved, new living organisms would come into being over millions of years."

"Father, what do you mean?"

Genesis is written at the basic level of understanding of nomadic shepherds. As humanity has matured some of its understanding is greater, and so now God speaks another language, the language of science. In the future science will keep going and discover more and more things, but those people who truly believe in God will see in science not the denial of God's existence, but rather its affirmation.