I believe that God created the Earth, the Heavens, and all that lives and breathes. I believe that God created everything in Seven "Days". God said "Let there be light." The angels and spirits all nodded, and working with God, there was light. Now, did this take exactly 24 hours as our Earth rotates around the sun? How could it? Our sun wasn't around yet. How ever long it took, though, to separate the light from the dark, is how long it took. When it was all said and done, God and his angels all took a step back, and looked over what they had done. God saw that it was good, and he called it a day.
Ta-dah! My little creation theory. Now on to that misunderstood concept of evolution (at least as how I like to think of it).
Dinosaurs lived, they were placed here on the Earth during the creation. It was building blocks... kind of like the BIOS on your computer before the Operating System's put on. All sorts of animals walked on the face of the Earth as creation was going on. Now, did tyrannosaurs become birds... does that really pertain to my eternal salvation? I don't think it does. What I do think has happened at least over the times that man has been on the Earth, is Adaptation.
When God said to Noah, "There's gonna be a floody floody, get those animals out of the muddy muddy." Noah took a deep breath, looked into the heavens and said, "You want me to do what?"
The ark was huge! Massive! And made out of wood! And Noah was ordered to put two of every kind of animal on the ark. No arguments here. What I think though, in my personal opinion, is that Noah put two elephants on the ark. Not two African and two Indian elephants, just two elephants. He put on two big cats, not two lions, and two tigers, and two leopards. When the rains came down, the ark floated up. When the raven took off, and the dove came back, and the ark ended up on the top of the mountain (whether it be in Turkey or the Himalayas), the animals did as they were commanded. They went forth an multiplied. And they Adapted. Adapted to where they were. The elephants that were in Asia, didn't need the big ears, but the ones that moved farther onto Africa did. The lions, tiger, cheetahs, leopards, jaguars, all found their homes and their niches, and adapted to where they settled down.
Where's my scientific proof? Where's my irrefutable evidence? Sorry, I'm a theorist, not a scientist. And I'm probably going to be lynched because of it. To be honest, I'm not even sure where I'd start too look. If someone else does, though, let me know. Heck, if the Discovery Channel decides to take up my little idea, I'd be friggin' tickled pinker than a baby in Easter PJs.
Now, back to the real world... kinda...
First, my little niece Gracie is the cutest little button. I got to spend a while holding her last night, thinking how great it'll be once we get through the bankruptcy and get to working on the adoption. I so want a little one. I know my wife does too. I can only hope we'll be as good of parents as our parents were.
Next, I finally managed to pick up Cityscape! Hmm... interesting. I'm not going to go off and say something as silly as "It's the best book ever!" It's not. It's got some interesting concepts. It also does well to flesh out a city adventure. If you take Cityscape, Waterdeep: City of Splendors (I love that book, by the way... oh, how I love it...), Races of Destiny, the Dragon Compendium, and the few issues of Dragon magazine that specialize in Waterdeep, you can run a hum-dinger of a campaign in that city. It's a great book for flushing out a city. Kinda putting somethings into perspective is great.Now, I will say this about it, though. Feats must be starting to get scarce. There's some good feats in this book, like Deceptive Spell (I cast magic missile, it enters, stage right...), but I think almost half the feats are a reprint of feats found in Races of Destiny or DMG II. Also, the prestige class are well thought out, and actually have a lot better context than how most PrCs are presented. They're linked to organizations they may belong too. It's interesting. The thing is... you have to go through the book with a fine toothed comb to find the prestige classes, other wise you can lead people astray. I told Bob that there weren't any PrCs in this book, after flipping through it like five times at the book store before I bought it. Hmm.... WotC should sign me up to be a reviewer, and then I'd get the books for free... hehehe...
One may notice that I've got banners now, stating with my clan affiliations. I am proud to say that I am Scorpion Clan. If you're someone interested in story lines, samurai, and some fun, I advise you to get over to www.legendofthefiverings.com and go through the Clan questionnaire "Which Clan Are You?". L5R is looking like they're headed in an interesting direction. I will admit, I have some trepidation that some fool's going to win a tourney and send Rokugan to heck in a hand basket. I am upset that they kill off another Emperor (and you'd think with the mortality rate that job has, there'd be less people interested in claiming it...) but what can you do? Oh.. yeah.. participate in a the tournaments and make a difference. Man, that is sooo much cooler than "This storyline makes no sense, but what can you do? Nothing" Magic: The Gathering. I will admit that I used to play Magic (aka Card Crack), but when I was a child I did childish things... now that I am a Man... I do different childish things, that I think are less childish.
Okay... maybe I'm not a candidate for Evolution... but maybe I can just adapt.
(I mean, I adapted... Once... I was a Crab....)
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