A Fundamental Question

True or False: was Noah's Ark big enough to hold the dinosaurs? This was a question on a test in Creation Science at Liberty University. A student from Brown went undercover as a student to Liberty (Jerry Falwell's brainchild) and then wrote "The Unlikely Disciple." He took the core curriculum classes at Liberty and this was one of his test questions.

I admit, I've been puzzling over this one for 2 days. If I were an evangelical fundamentalist, I might think that of course it was big enough! God made it big enough for all 1.4-30 million species we currently have, so why not the dinosaurs? But then again, if the dinosaurs fit on the ark, they would be with us today. But maybe dinosaurs are remnants of the Garden of Eden, and as a final punishment to mankind after kicking us out of the garden, we also lost these fantastic species to the flood? On the other hand, does that mean that I believe that the people before Noah lived at the same time as the dinosaurs? Wouldn't running from T-rex's and feasting on brontosaurs merit a couple of verses in Genesis? Not to mention, there were other cultures there during earth's 6000 year history and surely they would have written about or drawn a dinosaur? So I'm going to answer......True! No wait, False! No True! I never get T/F questions right.

Facts I Would Rather Not Know

Thanks NPR for this gem about the Skull & Bones secret society: Magog is the nickname reserved for the most sexually experienced member of the society. Who was Magog in the 1940s? George H. W. Bush. (Now's an appropriate time for a full body shudder.)

Incidentally, George W. Bush couldn't decide on a nickname, so he was known as "Temporary."

Using the Power Of Journey for Good - Not Evil

Such is the genius of Glee! So this is kind of a commercial for Glee (a new show on Fox), but I've had their a cappella version of Journey's Don't Stop Believin' stuck in my head for 2 days now. I even broke down and bought it on i Tunes. The classic move on the show comes when a high school teacher plants some pot on the high school quarterback to blackmail him into joining Glee Club. As everyone knows, whatever the popular kids join will become popular (if you blackmail them, they will come...). I really hope this show doesn't get cancelled, because a cappella never sounded so good.



I admit, I'm kind of jealous our Madrigals in high school were never this good singing Puttin' On The Ritz. If only we had the quarterback!