This will be interesting...

Well I found a pretty good site for the lesson I have to teach tomorrow:
Pretty good website
It's all about science in the Bible and compares when the Bible mentioned certain scientific phenomena and when we "discovered" it. It's pretty good. then I found some interesting quote by two people I always thought were pretty neat:



"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
- Albert Einstein

"It is difficult to discuss the beginning of the universe without mentioning the concept of God"
- Steven Hawking

These two men are and were very prevalent in the scientific world. Though neither of them are Christians which makes this even more interesting, they both state that for the Earth to have been randomly created is pretty much impossible to explain.
Albert Einstein was a deist, that is he believed that God created everything and then abandoned it and it's inhabitants to fend for themselves. So it would make sense that he would correlate religion and science.
Steven Hawking on the other hand is agnostic. Which basically he states this in his quote. He believes there is a higher being in the universe.
So both of these intelligent men believe that their is a higher being, whether that be God or not. I still find it fascinating that so many people would believe in evolution. Truthfully, if I did was not a Christian, I could see where evolution would be an attractive alternative. But seriously I can't quite imagine anyone believing that anything so complex, such as the human body, could have been randomly created. Charles Darwin himself said, "Would any one trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind...?", in reference to his theory. The sad thing is that evolution is actually based on the somewhat sound theory of natural selection which makes it all the more convincing to those who don't believe in God. Generally stating, natural selection works by selecting out variations in species that allow it to survive in it's environment better. For an example: lets say that recently a random patch of soil got burned, so it is now charred and black. There are variations of little bugs all over the soil, some white and some black. Naturally the white bugs are going to get eaten first by their natural predators due to their visibility. The black bugs will be safe because they blend in. From what I know, this is a simplified version of what evolutionists base their principles on, though they go so far as to say that a certain species, lets take whales for example. According to them, the whales started out with their blow hole on the front of their face, like an actual nose. But, due to one whale basically being born with a birth defect, and that blow hole is slightly higher than normal, it will be able to survive better cause it will be able to breathe better than the other whales. It will pass on that gene until thousands of generations later, one of it's descendants will have that blow whole just a little bit higher, and so on until we have a new species!! I just don't buy it, especially when we supposedly started out as a single cell and somehow came out this perfect. What do you guys think?