One warm sunny day a cow decides to go for a swim and walks down to the beach.

The water is fine and she  enjoys the swim.  Her feet are magically becoming flipper and she is careful not to leave any fossils.

Again as if by magic, her hind feet are transformed into a tail and again she is careful not to leave a single fossil

Without any fossil evidence this theory is an udder failure.

E. Norbert Smith, Ph.D. God of Creation.com 

Please note: I got permission to post this story from the person who wrote this and paid for the pictures to be drawn. He is a friend of mine. Please respect his intellectual property. If you want permission to use the story and pictures, please contact him though his website. Thank you.

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All bats are in the order Chiroptera. Since they are in the same order, evolutionarily speaking, they are all related to each other. Actually, you can tell by looking at them that bats are related to each other, and are probably really variations of the first two bats that God created, in my humble opinion.

But, let’s just talk about evolution for a second. Evolution claims the gradual descent of all creatures from the “simple” cell (no cells are simple, they are incredibly complex, but I digress) Many, many variations occurring over time, and then some animal gives birth to the first bat. My question is which animal gave birth to the first bat?

A mammal with wings could not have given birth to the first bat, since all mammals with wings are called bats. A bat could not have given birth to the first bat. That would be impossible, right? Bats are mammals with wings. Bats are the only mammals with wings. No other mammal except bats has wings. So, which animal gave birth to the first bat?

The fossil record shows that bats have always been bats, so there is no help there. Plus, evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould wrote that there are no transitional fossils in the fossil record, anyway. (oh, really, you crazy creationist?)

Stephen Jay Gould, evolutionist, published "The Return of Hopeful Monsters," in Natural History, vol. 86 (June/July 1977) promoting a new theory of evolution called Punctuated Equilibrium. This new theory was needed, according to evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould, to explain why there are no transitional fossil forms.

The fossil record, claims evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould, does not show the gradual descent from one basic type of animal to another basic type of animal ( invertebrates to fish to amphibian to reptile to mammal or birds.)

So, let’s get back to my question to evolutionists: What kind of animal gave birth to the first bat?

Here is my answer:

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and bats.

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Reasons Why I Believe in God

It all began with a book recommendation...

I  have condensed my whole site into this one page. These 11 books have the reasons for my beliefs. There are also online books and articles below if you want to know the same information for free.  Click on a few links and read the reviews that others have written on Amazon. You might be surprised:

My top 11 Favorite books:

The Young Earth by John D. Morris, PhD
The author, a geological engineer, describes the geological systems of the earth and shows that they have been made within thousands, not millions, of years.

By Design: Evidence for Nature’s Intelligent Design – The God of the Bible by Dr. Jonathan Safarti,
Dr. Jonathan Safarti, a chess champion, as well as a scientist, uses logic, as well as science, to talk about aspects in living things with indicate the need for a designer.  This book is about “Intelligent Design”, but by a Christian

Darwin's Black Box: : The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution by Michael J. Behe
The author is a biochemist at Lehigh University. He examines the cell close up and describes all of the inner workings. He compares the cell to a large city with food delivery and trash pickup. He coins the term "irreducible complexity" and concludes that life on earth was intelligently designed.

Darwin's Enigma by Luther D. Sunderland
In 1859, in the book Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin said: "Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms". Now over 100 years later, Sutherland wrote letters to at the world's largest museums and asked each one what fossils of transitional forms they had in their collections. None of the paleontologists had a fossil of a transitional form.

Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of Human Fossils by Marvin L. Lubenow
This book analyzes all of the hominid fossils. The appendix has a very detailed discussion of the dating of the fossil skull KNM-ER 1470. The science journal "Nature" is where the researchers published their research regarding this skull and their papers in "Nature" are quoted extensively. According to the many quotes from "Nature" it took a period of ten years to date this one fossil skull. This skull caused a big controversy in the scientific community and that's why it took ten years for them to agree. This ten year process is detailed step by step using the words of the researchers, themselves. There were many dates given by the various radiometric dating techniques. The scientists could not agree on the "right" date of the many that were given by the various techniques. The author shows that a lot of the science related to the fossils and evolution is subjective.

Buried Alive: The Startling Truth About Neanderthal Man by Jack Cuozzo
The author, an orthodontist, went all over Europe into the back rooms of the largest museums and examined actual fossil skulls of Neanderthals. Most museums only have cast copies of the skulls and most scientists have never seen a real one. He got permission to x-ray the skulls and there are pictures in the book. He shows that the skulls have been put together improperly with the jaw jutting out. Because of the belief in evolution the jaw has been put in a more ape like fashion in all Neanderthal skulls. Then, these improperly assembled skulls were copied and sent museums all over the world.

Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution is Wrong by Jonathan Wells, Jody F. Sjogren
This book talks about the supposed evidence for evolution as taught in text books. The author describes in detail the Miller-Urey experiment, Darwin's tree of life, Darwin's finches, the horse series, Haeckel's embryos, peppered moths, and several other topics. This author is one of the men interviewed in the book above entitled Case for a Creator: The: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God

Case for a Creator: The: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God by Lee Strobel
The author was an atheist journalist. When his wife became a Christian he went all over the USA and interviewed scientists and others about why they believed in God. After a period of time he came to believe in God and became a Christian, too. This book has the interviews that convinced him. Two of the men he interviewed, Jonathan Wells ( Icons of Evolution:: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution is Wrong ) and Michael Behe (Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution ), wrote books that are on this reading list. My story is similar to Strobel's. I was so excited to see that God's existence can be proven scientifically I made this website to tell others.

In Six Days: Why Fifty Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation Edited by John F. Ashton PhD.
Read "In Six Days" Online
This might be my favorite of all the books on this list. The editor compiled papers by fifty scientists. Each chapter is by a different scientist who gives aspects from each field that cannot be explained by purely physical means. Each scientist gives the reasons why he believes that God created the universe, the earth, plants and animals in six days as the Bible book of Genesis describes. It has detailed scientific explanations. There is a sequel to this book entitled On the Seventh Day:: Forty Scientists and Academics Explain Why They Believe in God which is listed below.

On the Seventh Day: Forty Scientists and Academics Explain Why They Believe in God Edited by John F. Ashton PhD.
This is the sequel to the book In Six Days: : Why Fifty Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation discussed above. Forty scientists and academics explain why they believe in God

Many Infallible Proofs: Evidences for the Christian Faith by Henry M. Morris
This book has many scientific evidences for the belief in God. It discusses evidence for a world wide flood which caused the fossil record and the large amount of buried foliage that became gas, coal and oil. It has a chapter on The Bible and Science which lists things that were in the Bible before science knew about it, including the circulation of blood, the water cycle, the shape of the earth and the number of stars. The Bible verses for each are listed.

(Disclaimer: I am set up with Amazon.com as an Amazon Associate. They pay a very small percentage of sales to the person who hosts links to Amazon.com. I have a couple of dollars on credit. But, as they only cut checks in $100 increments, I can honestly say I have never made any money on the sale of any book I recommend, and I never expect to in the future. The only reason I am set up this way  is because it is the only way I can ever know if anybody ever buys a book I recommend.)

From as far back as I can remember, I was taught that life on earth came about by a process of time and chance. It was all I had ever known.

In 1996 I met some people who told me the scientific evidence does not support what I had always believed. Of course, I knew that they were ignorant. What I believed was scientific! What did they know!

But, they were very confident in what they believed. They basically dared me to read a book to see if they were right. I fought it for months, but, I ended up deciding that it wouldn't hurt to read just one skinny book that they recommended.

So here I am paying money to have a website just to tell people why I believe in God. If you want to know what happened between then and now, check out My Testimony.

When I say at I am an ex-evolutionist, I am using the term “evolution” only as the supposed major changes from the beginning of life: Fish to amphibians to reptiles to mammals and birds.

Most of what people call “evolution” can more accurately be called genetics – variation within species. Creationists have no disagreement with the fact that there can be variety within types of animals, different sized beaks in Darwin’s finches, for instance. The only question is whether those small variations show that all live forms are related. See my page: What is a Species?.

There is a lot of misinformation about what a creationist believes. I’m going to try to explain part of it here. First off, not all scientists are evolutionists. Many scientists who believe in God as creator do research and publish their work in peer reviewed scientific journals. (If somebody tells you otherwise, they are misinformed or dishonest.)

However, scientists who believe in creation cannot publish evidence that disproves evolution in “peer reviewed” scientific journals as the peers who do the reviewing are evolutionists. If you are reading this website, you probably do not believe in God as creator and reject creation. Does that prove it false? No. The evolutionists who peer review the journals similarly reject any articles which are against evolution.

But, to a Bible believing creationist, it is irrelevant if a journal run by evolutionists does not print an article opposing evolution. That would make sense, wouldn’t it? It is no different than if a magazine about cats, peer reviewed by cat lovers, rejected articles saying that dogs are better than cats. It is their belief. It is not a fact.

So, what happens to the scientific articles that creationists write that disprove evolution? Do they get thrown away? No, they get published as books. Like all scientific papers, they have profuse quotes from articles in peer reviewed scientific journals. In fact, some of the published information in the evolutionist science journals actually will support a creationist view.

For instance, evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould published  "The Return of Hopeful Monsters," in Natural History, vol. 86 (June/July 1977). In this article, he says there is insufficient evidence to support the theory of evolution in the fossil record.

He said this because he was promoting a new theory of evolution called Punctuated Equilibrium. But, that theory says that evolution happened in giant leaps, instead of small steps, leaving no evidence. A creationist would say that there is no evidence for evolution in the fossil record because evolution did not happen.

Since I was recommended that first, skinny book, I have read many more. If you want to see the whole list see my page: Book List. These are not all of the books I have read on this topic, but they are that I recommend most wholeheartedly. That list of recommended books was getting so long, that I have decided to condense all of my recommendations into the books listed above.

Online Resources

The following items may be read in their entirety online:

Books

The Answers Book
One Blood: The Biblical Answer to Racism
In Six Days: Why 50 Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation
Refuting Evolution
Refuting Evolution 2
Why Won't They Listen?

Booklets

Adam's Rib: Creation & the Human Body
Does Carbon Dating Disprove the Bible?
Evidence for a Young World
Is There Intelligent Life in Outer Space?
The Seven C's of History
Six Days or Millions of Years?
Where Did Cain Get His Wife?
Where Did the 'Races' Come From?
What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs?
Why Is There Death & Suffering

Videos

Online Creation Videos

(Reasons why I believe in God – Home page, no tables)

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Look at the pictures of the pretty dogs:

Oh, wait, those are not dogs. Those are wolves. They are not even the same species of wolf! They are two different species of wolf, can’t you tell? 

Red Wolf (Canis rufus)	Gray Wolf (Canis lupus)

The deal is, we KNOW that all dogs are the same “species” because we know that they are the same “species”. Yes, you read that correctly. If a scientist came along and saw a poodle or a St. Bernard living in the wild, he would publish a paper on the new species he has found.

But, since we have lived so closely with dogs for hundreds of years, they wouldn’t dare try to fool us by telling us that a poodle is a different species than a St. Bernard. We know that dogs are dogs are dogs because the neighbor’s dog jumps over the fence to have babies with our dog. Then, the babies were more dogs.

But, we are told that all the little variation in groups of  dogs (and bears, cats,etc) is a new species .

Carl Linnaeus is called the “Father of Taxonomy”. He developed the classification system that became what now called “taxonomy”. He was just trying to categorize the types of animals to see how many kinds of animal that God created.

But, evolution-believing scientists have taken his system of categorizing animals into God’s created kinds, and decided that it now shows evolutionary relationships.

Carl Linnaeus defined the word “Species” like this (paraphrase): "If two animals can mate and produce fertile offspring then they are the same species."

He was trying to find the maximum number of animals that God created in order to have all the variations that we now have.

It is well known that different “species” of wild dogs can cross-breed and produce fertile offspring together. But, is the word “cross-breed” really accurate? “

“Cross-breed” means to mate two different species together. Wolfdog and coydog are names of two of the “cross-bred” variations. Carl Linnaeus. who defined the term “species” defined it that if they can mate and have babies then they are the same species. What’s the deal? Why aren’t dogs, wolves, coyotes, etc all the same species?

The definition of species has changed just in my lifetime. Now, the term “species” is giving to every small various within a type of animal. Why? Because there is not enough evidence to prove evolution (because it is not true).

Dogs only make dogs, bears only make bears, cats only make cats. There is no cross-breeding between cats and dogs, or between dogs and bears, or between bears and cats. But, they are in the same Order Carnivore, meaning that they are related to each other evolutionarily-speaking. (again, by using Carl Linnaeus’ categories that he made to name God’s created kinds.)

But, how can cats, dogs and bears be related if they are isolated within their own reproductive circle? Exactly. That’s what science is trying to hide. If they define a zillion species of dogs, a zillion species of cats, and a zillion species of bears, we will be fooled into believing that new animals are being developed by evolution all the time.

Because evolution is a “fact” (even though there is no proof) they have to make more evidence or people might quit believing it.

In reality, God created the basic kinds of animals: dogs, cats, bears, etc. Each basic kind of animal has the capacity for adapting to any ecological zone they come across. That is not evolution, that is good planning. That  only the innate genetic diversity that God programmed into all his creations.

A population of animals (or humans, too), who only interbreed with each other will start to look like each other. This “family resemblance” is what is miss-named "a “species”. Then, since that “species” that only developed in one place is named an “endangered species” because it is not any place else.

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In ten years, after the isolated population of goldfish in my backyard pond has been only reproducing with each other, I am going to have an endangered species of goldfish. I’m going go ask for federal funding to protect their habitat. 

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I'm working on my website, using Windows Live Writer for the formatting and links, so I thought I might as well post it as a blog while I chew it a while and see if I want to put it on my website yet.

I set out to condense my home page, but I think I made it longer. There is a lot of talking involved in explaining why you think a magic fairy made the universe.

Edited to add: I forgot I formatted it for a certain width. It won’t work here in the blog the way I have it set up. Anyway, I have my hard work here on the internet for safe keeping until I upload it for real.

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My top 11 Favorite books:

	The Young Earth by John D. Morris, PhD The author, a geological engineer, describes the geological systems of the earth and shows that they have been made within thousands, not millions, of years.
	By Design: Evidence for Nature’s Intelligent Design – The God of the Bible by Dr. Jonathan Safarti, Dr. Jonathan Safarti, a chess champion, as well as a scientist, uses logic, as well as science, to talk about aspects in living things with indicate the need for a designer.  This book is about “Intelligent Design”, but by a Christian
	Darwin's Black Box: : The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution by Michael J. Behe The author is a biochemist at Lehigh University. He examines the cell close up and describes all of the inner workings. He compares the cell to a large city with food delivery and trash pickup. He coins the term "irreducible complexity" and concludes that life on earth was intelligently designed.
	Darwin's Enigma by Luther D. Sunderland In 1859, in the book Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin said: "Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms". Now over 100 years later, Sutherland wrote letters to at the world's largest museums and asked each one what fossils of transitional forms they had in their collections. None of the paleontologists had a fossil of a transitional form.
	Bones of Contention: A Creationist Assessment of Human Fossils by Marvin L. Lubenow This book analyzes all of the hominid fossils. The appendix has a very detailed discussion of the dating of the fossil skull KNM-ER 1470. The science journal "Nature" is where the researchers published their research regarding this skull and their papers in "Nature" are quoted extensively. According to the many quotes from "Nature" it took a period of ten years to date this one fossil skull. This skull caused a big controversy in the scientific community and that's why it took ten years for them to agree. This ten year process is detailed step by step using the words of the researchers, themselves. There were many dates given by the various radiometric dating techniques. The scientists could not agree on the "right" date of the many that were given by the various techniques. The author shows that a lot of the science related to the fossils and evolution is subjective.
	Buried Alive: The Startling Truth About Neanderthal Man by Jack Cuozzo The author, an orthodontist, went all over Europe into the back rooms of the largest museums and examined actual fossil skulls of Neanderthals. Most museums only have cast copies of the skulls and most scientists have never seen a real one. He got permission to x-ray the skulls and there are pictures in the book. He shows that the skulls have been put together improperly with the jaw jutting out. Because of the belief in evolution the jaw has been put in a more ape like fashion in all Neanderthal skulls. Then, these improperly assembled skulls were copied and sent museums all over the world.
	Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution is Wrong by Jonathan Wells, Jody F. Sjogren This book talks about the supposed evidence for evolution as taught in text books. The author describes in detail the Miller-Urey experiment, Darwin's tree of life, Darwin's finches, the horse series, Haeckel's embryos, peppered moths, and several other topics. This author is one of the men interviewed in the book above entitled Case for a Creator: The: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God
	Case for a Creator: The: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God by Lee Strobel The author was an atheist journalist. When his wife became a Christian he went all over the USA and interviewed scientists and others about why they believed in God. After a period of time he came to believe in God and became a Christian, too. This book has the interviews that convinced him. Two of the men he interviewed, Jonathan Wells ( Icons of Evolution:: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution is Wrong ) and Michael Behe (Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution ), wrote books that are on this reading list. My story is similar to Strobel's. I was so excited to see that God's existence can be proven scientifically I made this website to tell others.
	In Six Days: Why Fifty Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation Edited by John F. Ashton PhD. Read "In Six Days" Online This might be my favorite of all the books on this list. The editor compiled papers by fifty scientists. Each chapter is by a different scientist who gives aspects from each field that cannot be explained by purely physical means. Each scientist gives the reasons why he believes that God created the universe, the earth, plants and animals in six days as the Bible book of Genesis describes. It has detailed scientific explanations. There is a sequel to this book entitled On the Seventh Day:: Forty Scientists and Academics Explain Why They Believe in God which is listed below.
	On the Seventh Day: Forty Scientists and Academics Explain Why They Believe in God Edited by John F. Ashton PhD. This is the sequel to the book In Six Days: : Why Fifty Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation discussed above. Forty scientists and academics explain why they believe in God
	Many Infallible Proofs: Evidences for the Christian Faith by Henry M. Morris This book has many scientific evidences for the belief in God. It discusses evidence for a world wide flood which caused the fossil record and the large amount of buried foliage that became gas, coal and oil. It has a chapter on The Bible and Science which lists things that were in the Bible before science knew about it, including the circulation of blood, the water cycle, the shape of the earth and the number of stars. The Bible verses for each are listed.

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My Really Good Boy Dog Belty (Mom’s Main Man) is having tummy problems today, and it is causing him to pass gas - really exceptionally bad gas - I mean go outside and get some fresh air bad gas. But, I am feeling very thankful right now that my good boy Belty is here with me stinking up the house.

We don’t really know how old he is. He was a stray when we adopted him, and they guessed at about a year and a half old at the time. So, we have done the math ever since.

So, we guess he is 13. He is slowing down. (not fair. He is too good of a Boy.) He is getting old. His system is not all working well any more. His digestive tract, particularly, does not work well any more.

Sometimes he throws up, sometimes his tummy makes a lot of noise, and sometimes he just passes really awful gas.

Today, I am feeling very thankful that my good boy Belty is here with me stinking up the house.

I really dread losing him. I’m over fifty and have outlived several good dogs, but Belty is the best dog in the history of dogs. Here’s a blog I wrote a blog about him: Belty, the best dog in the history of the world.

So why am I writing this blog entry about how I love his stinky gas?

Many years ago, in Ann Landers or Dear Abby, (advice columnists for many years and twin sisters) there were a series of letters from wives whose husbands were snoring so loud that they could not sleep. Day after day, letters complaining about snoring husbands.

Then one day, a letter that has stayed with me all these years. I can’t remember it verbatim, but I’ll never forget the sentiment. This woman wrote in one day and said:

I wish my hubby was alive again so that I could listen to him snore just one more time.

That one statement has really meant something to me in various ways over the years.

So, today, I am very thankful that my good boy Belty is alive and with me, no matter what he is doing.

I love you, Belty Boo. You are the best dog in the history of the world.

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I was just cruising around with a zillion things on my mind. And then, I saw an update the Gerry had posted a blog titled with a Bible verse. So, I just was sitting and reading his blog and getting reminded what the whole point of things is. Thank you, Gerry!

Since Gerry helped get my mind back on track this morning, I’m going to continue in the same Spirit (get it?) and post my favorite chapter of the Bible. The Book of Genesis sets the whole foundation for life on earth, life with God, the need for Jesus, everything important.

The first chapter of Genesis tells how God made the earth and everything in it. And, yes, I believe it, word for word. (I have a website where I talk about why I believe that there is a God.)

Genesis Chapter 1:

 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day", and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning-- the first day.

6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning-- the second day.

9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good. 11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning-- the third day.

14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights-- the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning-- the fourth day.

20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning-- the fifth day.

24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground." 29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground-- everything that has the breath of life in it-- I give every green plant for food." And it was so. 31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning-- the sixth day.

Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION ®
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society.
Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House.
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This is part two of my “Wonderful Day” story:

My hubby was wheeling me around in JCPenny’s, as always. I can “walk”, I just can’t stand or walk without feeling like I’m I’m going to pass out ever second. When we go to the big stores, I use the “courtesy” wheelchairs. I feel silly using a wheelchair since there is nothing wrong with my back or legs, oh well.

So, my hubby is pushing me around JCPenny’s, and I notice women smiling big smiles to my hubby. Hmm, I thought.

Then suddenly, it all came to me:

I started going grey pretty early, and have a nice crop of grey hair. Plus, the ravages of the silly lung disease has messed up my skin. Every organ is messed up because of the lack of oxygen, but the skin is on the outside, so it shows.

Plus, my hubby has one of those “baby faces”. He’s got a little bald spot, but no gray hair, and that baby face.

So, here’s the deal…

All those women are thinking: Oh, how sweet! He’s taking his mom shopping.”

So, I am going to got get some of that stuff the kids use these days and put some pink stripes in my gray hair. Maybe that will make me look younger….

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What would be the perfect day for me?

• First, the perfect day would start out with my feeling relatively healthy for a change.
• Second, the perfect day would be on a day when my hubby is off work.
• Third, the perfect day would be a day when the weather is absolutely beautiful.

Today is the perfect day! With my silly lung condition, I have bad days and worse days, and hardly ever good days, so I spend my time watching movies, visiting on the internet, reading, crocheting, whatever.

Today, actually, I had planned on spending the day in one of my old neighborhoods, the Religion board of IMDB.com. Those plans will have to wait.

This morning, as I said, I woke up feeling pretty good, and wanting to get out of the house. When I am not feeling well, leaving the house is a big pain, literally. It is so much easier to sit here in my lazy boy chair than try to make the long walk to the car, and lug my oxygen around.

Anyway, so I woke up feeling good, and my hubby was home! Plus, OU football is not on this weekend, so he wants to hang out with me. I want to strike while the iron is hot, and spend time with my hubby while he is in the mood.

Plus, my oh, my what a beautiful day in Oklahoma City today! Miles and miles of nothing but the most beautiful shade of blue in the sky, . Recently, it had been near  100 degrees, for you Celsius people, that is really, really nasty hot. Plus the humidity in this town is unbearable. Then, when it is not 100 degrees, it is dreary and rainy, and still nasty humid.

But, today’s beautiful weather made me feel even stronger to actually go outside for a change.

So, this morning, my hubby and I hung out. We took drives between errands, and went out to lunch. I’m having a wonderful time!

I’m just having a break to give this update to my friends.

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I was just visiting friends in a message board, and there was a post asking:

Who is better looking: Henry Fonda or Peter O'Toole?

My answer:

It depends on the movie. If you compare Lawrence of Arabia to The Grapes of Wrath it is a tie.

That question has really gotten me thinking. So, I went through my list of favorite movies and picked out the movie that each of these men looks best in, in my humble opinion:

• Henry Fonda: Grapes of Wrath
• Jimmy Stewart: Mr Smith Goes to Washington
• Peter O’Toole: Lawrence of Arabia
• Gregory Peck: To Kill a Mockingbird
• Peter Lorre: The Maltese Falcon (ok, so I have a thing for Peter Lorre in this movie. Not handsome really, more like impishly cute)
• Cary Grant: Arsenic and Old Lace
• Marlin Brando: A Streetcar Named Desire
• Kirk Douglass: Spartacus (woo hoo, nice legs)
• Clark Gable: It Happened one Night
• Gene Kelly: Singing in the Rain (be still my heart)
• Gary Cooper: Meet John Doe
• Humphrey  Bogart: Casablanca (not good looking, really, but ruggedly handsome)
• William Powel: My Man Godfrey
• Charles Boyer: Gaslight
• Fred MacMurray: Double Indemnity:
• William Holden, Sunset Boulevard

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Here's a protest song about the bailout of Chrysler in 1979. The more things change, the more they stay the same…

My Pandora channel is filled with folk songs, protest songs, country songs, old blues songs etc. I had never heard of any of these songs until I started playing with Pandora. It’s a hoot. (I talk about how I found the songs on the channel).

I am proud to present: I’m changing my name to AIG, uh, I mean Chrysler:

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I wrote recently about getting my adult tricycle. I was SO happy to get around under my own power that I really did a number on my knees. I’ve been in pain a couple of weeks. Finally, just now, my hubby was out working in the yard, so I thought I’d go out and try to ride again.

(For those new to me, I have messed up lungs, and I can’t stand or walk worth beans because I’m too weak, but my legs work, or did.)

So, I just came in from riding my tricycle around in circles in front of the house. Our street has a slight grade. I didn’t want to put myself in a position where I was down the hill and not able to come back. I wanted my hubby out there just in case.

So, I was riding my tricycle in circles in front of the house.

I’m getting déjà vu.

It seems like I did that about 50 years ago, too.

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Usually, my hubby and I go to bed at the same time. But, I can’t sleep, lately, and it is frustrating.

Here’s how my nights have been for about the last several months:

1. Go to bed and turn off light
2. Give up and do a crossword puzzle
3. Turn off light
4. Give up, do a Sudoku
5. Turn off light
6. Do another crossword
7. Turn off light
8. Try reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin again
9. Turn off light
10. Try reading The Odyssey again
11. Turn off light
12. Do a Sudoku

Repeat steps 1 through 12 till dawn.

I’m getting some mad skills in crosswords and Sudoku. And maybe I’ll be able to get into the writing styles of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and The Odyssey one of these days.

Tonight I’m trying a different approach. I’m not going to bed.

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Anybody else see the season premier of House last night with Greg House as RP McMurphy?

All that was missing was Chief. Nurse Ratchet and Billy Bibbit were there, though.

I’m glad that RP McMurphy didn’t get a lobotomy this time….

Great episode.

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My favorite television show, and by coincidence, the best show ever in the history of television, is Lost. When Lost comes back on this season, it will be the last season ever.

Let’s give “Lost” a good send off! The producers have promised that ALL the questions will be answered. Join my new group and  let’s hash it all out. Let’s discuss whether or not they let us down.

As a new group, this will be hard to get of the ground. But, when Lost comes back on, we will have have new visitors. In the meanwhile, go ahead and join my group, and let’s discuss what’s already happened, and what needs to be answered.

How much of the story is from Homer’s Odyssey? I don’t know yet, but I just started reading the book. Have any of you read the book? Tell us what you think?

You can watch past shows of Lost here on ABC.com Watch "Lost"

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Let's enjoy the last season of Lost together

(As in my other groups, Lost has a strictly “No Spam” policy. Members shall not send mass mailings to the group’s email address, or post advertisements in the group. Violators shall be removed from the group.)

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If you receive an email from the Department of Health,

Telling you not to eat pork from cans,

Because of swine flu......

Ignore it.

It's just spam. *

(* I love puns, so I put this in the Hobbies category)

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New car dealers routinely entice people with a cash rebate to trick them into getting into an automobile loan they can’t afford. There was no need for the US government to entice people to get into debt.

One reason we got into this mess was because too many people bought things they couldn’t afford to pay back. Borrowing more money is not an efficient way to get out of debt.

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Jen and I were just talking briefly about t-shirts, and it prompted me to post his blog:

I do NOT have the “Fashion Gene”. The “Fashion Gene” is what makes somebody run out and buy new clothes when the “new color for the season” is announced.

For instance, I read in my local paper the other day that “the color for this season is orange”. So what? I have never been in style, and I do not plan to start now. I have an orange t-shirt though, so once in a while I will be in style.

So, X! What do you wear?

All of my outfits consists of three things:

• a t-shirt
• a pair of jeans or denim shorts (all t-shirts go with denim)
• a pair of Birkenstocks (veggie ones)

Seasonal options to my outfits include:

• Warm zippered sweatshirt with a hood
• Socks (yes, with sandals, so what?)
• Keds sneakers in case the snow is too deep to use Birkenstocks for snowshoes.

Optional hair fashions: (Anything that will keep my hair out of my eyes that given day):

• Crocheted pony tail holder
• Crocheted hair band

There you go. If you want to stock me at my PO Box you know who to look for.

The great thing about denim, is that all colors go with it. Besides not having the “Fashion Gene” I just don’t care about what goes with what. Since I always wear denim for the bottoms, the tops always go with it. No need for X to waste her brain cells on things that don’t matter.

Just heard from Jen: Jen, There is no age limit for denim. My mother is almost 80. She wears jeans all the time, and has a cute denim jacket with a kitty embroidered on the back. She looks really cute.

Let me also talk about my t-shirt preferences: Any free t-shirts. I love free t-shirts! I am a five gallon blood donor, and a have a zillion blood bank t-shirts. (I can’t give blood any more, so I steal my hubby’s blood bank t-shirts). I wear my newest blood bank t-shirts for dress-up.

I also have a few store-bought t-shirts that are solid color with no logo for special dates with my hubby.

I also have t-shirts from events from my favorite radio station in California. Bike rides, concerts, etc.

I wear the outfits listed above everywhere. The last time I wore a dress, it was to be respectful to the widow when I attended my husband’s boss’s funeral.

Was it because the funeral was in a church? Nope. I wear my standard outfit to church, too.

What? X! You’ve got to be kidding! You can't wear t-shirts and shorts to church! Oh yes I can, and I do.

When Jesus hung out with people, he did not hand out flyers with the dress code specified on it:

“Come back later when you are dressed properly. Signed Jesus”

He just hung out with them “as is”. The Jesus that I worship accepted me “as is” when I accepted him 13 years ago.

So, back to my rant:

Is anybody out there like me? Do you just not care about fashion? Confess now….

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"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jimmy Carter brought out the “race card”. That was the last straw for me. So here’s what I want to say:

I am very happy that this country has come to a point where we could elect a president of a different ethnicity than usual. (I don’t use the word “race”. That word is divisive and I avoid it totally.) But, it is totally wrong to imply that somebody is a “racist” if they don’t like his policies

Personally, I think that people are treating Obama the same way they treat all presidents. If they agree with him, they like him. If they don't agree with him, they don't like him.

Obama is being treated the same way people always treat presidents they don't like. This is just what Dr. Martin Luther King dreamed of. His dream has come true, in my humble opinion.

To bring up the “race” card to explain why some people do not like Obama’s policies is totally against everything Dr. King stood for, also in my humble opinion.

I do not support Obama’s policies because I don't like Obama’s policies. I don't care beans what ethnicity he is. It is irrelevant to me.

We are all one blood, in my opinion, and are all brothers and sisters created by God. Putting all the different ethnicities into different boxes has been bad for this country and for the world.

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Edited to add: We have a debate going on in Coffee Talk group. You are welcome to join in.

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