School & Lies

You would never figure out Mr. or Mrs. So-and-So was lying when they said the world was 1 million years old. But it isn't true. From the Bible, we can figure that the world is only thousands of years old. Not millions.

Something about that bugs me. That I have to sift through what I hear to make sure I am getting good information. Lies are so common now days in school - about the big bang and evolution. Last year I purposefully flunked a test because I didn't believe in what it was asking (okay, I admit, there was only one question like that. I'm just bad at science!). Today, I was reading in my science book during class and following along with the teacher. It was saying how they though elements are made from stardust and stuff. Then towards the end I read something about the world being millions of years old. The norm. I've learned to ignore that by now. But the worst part was right after it said that, it said something about how the whole world was created like that when particles smashed together (big bang). I had just gone through the whole lesson, not even noticing what I had been hearing was a total lie until the last sentence.

That's what happens. Some lies are very discreet. Some are so obvious it's not even funny. When textbooks say "The world was created by the big bang." and that's it.

Thanks to the Creation Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio, I have learned many reasons why the things they teach in school aren't true. They can prove from the Bible things like God creating the world. This happened awhile ago, but they discovered the Wall of Jericho. God said that the Bible would be proven true and look what happened?

I am pretty sure that it was my parents who told me about the machines used to test how old things were. Turns out they don't really work. There was some canyon thing or something like that that had been formed somewhat recently so it was only there for about 5 years or something. Some people decided to test it for its age, and the machines said it was millions of years old. Which, everyone knows isn't true because it was created only a few years prior to that.

Going back to my main point - what you learn in school isn't always true. If teachers can tell us to believe man-written text books, shouldn't we stop right there and instead believe The Book written by God? Because it does say, Genesis 1:1 In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth.

My Hamster

This Blog is called Real. Cute. Now. It is named this because of what is going to be written about on this blog- the real things happening in the world, cute hamsters and other animals, and what I am doing now. This post is going to be about the cute: my hamster Pibby.
One thing that nobody will ever figure out about my hamster from just looking at a picture - she has a LOT of personality. It's true Pibby is stuck in her cage all day and all night, with breaks where I take her out for about an hour in the evening, but Pibby has still played a role in our lives. Now, Pibby has a life expectancy of 3 years maximum. Because Pibby is healthy, happy, and welly taken care of, I have a feeling that she will live for about 2 and a half or more years. If you convert that to an age, Pibby was most likely almost a teen when she saved our house. Yes, you read that right. Pibby saved our house. Pibby is smart, and I have endless stories of all of the things she's done. But Pibby isn't smart enough to figure out that there was a glue gun on in the room above the garage that particular night. It was definately a God thing that Pibby just so happened to escape from her cage that Friday or Saturday night when I was gone at my Gramme's house. My mom was taking care of Pibby, so when she checked on her at night (10:00) like I had asked her to, Pibby was gone. Not there. So my mom went to look around. First she looked in my room - Pibby wasn't there. Then she headed over to Parker's room, and she didn't see Pibby. But when she checked the room above the garage (which is a large storage room that Parker's room opens to and guests commonly mistake as a walk-in closet. And like you may have guessed, it is directly above our garage.) and she didn't see Pibby. But what she did see, was a glue gun on sitting on a piece of paper on a wicker chair. HUGE FIRE HAZARD! Mom unplugged it before any fire started, and went back up to Parker's room. And then she saw Pibby, who was in Parker's room, sitting on his bookshelf looking up at mom.
That was totally a God thing. Our house was safe, and our hamster was found. God can use even the littlest of people, littlest of things, to do what he wants. That was really cool.

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OVERFLOW!

This weekend I went to a church retreat called Overflow. It was SO fun. We stayed at this awesome hotel in Lake Geneva (I think) and it had a water park inside. Seriously, it was like a miniature Wisconsin Dells. Of course, we didn't just swim. We also learned about God. This is the verse that the whole event was centered around:

The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart the mouth speaks.

Luke 6:45

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EDITED @ 6:24 pm:

As I have been looking at my blog throughout the entire day and seeing who has commented on this entry, I realized that people may not know what Real. Cute. Now. has to do with my blog. But it does. Real is for the real world, real things that are happening, ect. Cute is for cute hamsters (my hamster!), cute pets, any cute animal! Now is for what is happening NOW in my life, like Overflow.

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