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EVOLUTION IS CREATION IN ACTION

Watching a documentary on chimpanzees and I couldn’t help but be fascinated about the striking resemblance we have with them. How the look, and also how they communicate with each other especially in showing affection, I saw them kissing. A mother kissing her new born offspring something very similar and symbolic of how we show love to each other. This led me to thinking about evolution. Yes I know it has been debated so many times yet it never seems to reach an end. Maybe because there isn’t really a firm beginning that each side can begin from, only suspicions and assumptions. Often the debate starts off by asking, what came first, the chicken or the egg? Creationist will tell you that the chicken was created first in order to lay an egg. Evolutionists will argue that no it is the egg that gave existence to the chicken. Which of these is right? Who has it twisted and their head not screwed on straight? This debate can go on and on for centuries and it has. It has turned violent

RELIGION OF THE UNPLUGGED

I am sitting in my room at a guest house after a day’s work, and I am reflecting back on the recent post I published on the Holistic Junkie Facebook page that has gotten some very interest and strong responses from people who were “disturbed” by it. I had to write a blog about it since it would have been too long to post for Facebook, plus to start curbing my dry season of not blogging (I apologise). This incident really got me thinking about how much we still need to go as a human race as a whole. People really don’t like it when someone holds a different opinion about things, about live. Things such as religion in particular. It always intrigues me to observe just how “innately” some of us refuse or avoid this area in our human issues. We easily can talk about things that are quite base in nature in comparison to really having a talk about things of more concern like the nature of what many of us call God, Religion, and values. We completely hesitate or shy away from disc