friday night we had a full house of females (and one unfortunate guy- sorry Moshe:). old friend who is studying electrical engineering at C.U. came over, heated debate on evolutionary theory ensued. my friend, an evolution believer, and myself an "archaic" creationist fought it out. although i am an anthropology student (and have memorized the ape-line and the endless eons) i adamantly retain this viewpoint (i've written numerous articles in BC journals on the subject) simply because i feel science is still too young for God (just a bit more time...). i do though understand the appeal of evolution, there is a certain security in the logic, a human origin that man can ultimately accredit to himself- and in my opinion the ultimate perversion of the differentiated Intellect. how neatly compartmentalized life could be if we could firmly ascertain all that is, was, and will be, how misconscrewed is study, a form of scientific worship that hails such an ultimate quest....by nature's own diction man is a creator, created in the "image" of the creator himself, and still somehow refuses to acknowedge the causality (why Descartes ascertained God's existence) of his situation. in addition to which the bi-pedalism theory is on the road to being blown to shreds (sahelanthropus tchadensis) which would take down the entire adaptation theory... this dialogue (especially with myself :) can go on and on- i do though, agree with my brilliant friend that Jewish literature on the subject (particularly the Rebbe's published thesises) is sorely lacking and only deal with superficial issues of scientific interpetation (i.e. the basic inductive argument that does not address the thermo-dynamics issue) still, despite the obvious differences (which is okay cuz i am as of late a pyrrohnian skeptic and usually pretty chilled:) it was a good appropriate shabbos discussion (hey- G-d did rest on the seventh)... what else? hmm... i decided to go to shul aujourd'hui (break the Yom Kippur pattern) and managed to chit chat in the 'lil upstairs shul' with B.Marcus of Abraxas Bridge, and My Eighth Day fame (yummy warns don't go to www.the8thday.com it's a weird fish site). that was pretty funny- bit random, too bad he couldn't autograph my cds :) so for this funky Jewish partridge family-like music check out www.my8thday.com . happy happy totaly belated anniversary faye and jeremy- (can i please keep smirk? :) righto- a healthy, happy, shavuah tov. i hope M.G., that the color here has improved- i think that just about covers it. nighty night :)