SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS

I haven't posted lately because I wanted to have something weighty to report on and I have a fairly mundane life. But our SS class has been learning a lot about a major Bible figure. David started out by defeating Goliath and playing the harp for Saul and seemed to be the great warrior and musician. But after Saul died and David became King of Israel he developed more personal characteristics. Last week we learned that he fought the surrounding enemies and consolidated the empire, he sought out Jonathon's crippled son, brought him to the palace, restored all of Saul's land to him and took care of him and his son who would have a claim on the throne because of being Saul's grandson.

But then he looked down from his palace and saw Bathsheba taking a bath. Now we learned that David had his human nature. He took Bathsheba to bed, she got pregnant, he had her husband killed in battle, married Bathsheba and God was so angry he caused their baby son to die to punish David. But he was forgiven had another son by Bathsheba named Solomon. We are looking forward to learning more about this poet, singer and ruler.

CREATION EVIDENCE MUSEUM

Nancy and I found the Creation Evidence Museum on my GPS as a tourist site nearby and drove to Glen Rose on Wednesday. We found it and it is closed Sundays and Wednesdays. We went back Thursday morning to view the exhibits and listen to their video about the fossil discoveries that show man and dinosaurs living concurrently. They hypothesize that before the flood man and dinosaurs lived together and their tracks were fossilized in the Paluxy river.

One of their experiments that I heard about years ago was to build a hyperbaric chamber to simulate the conditions prior to the flood to see how the climate conditions affected growth of plants and animals. They had a small chamber that found that the higher oxygen and carbon dioxide and pressures did change the venom of copperhead snakes and lengthened the life of fruit flies. They are building a much larger chamber and want to simulate the magnetic field as well as atmosphere. They ran out of money to buy the large amount of copper wire they need to wrap the chamber that is long (I would guess 50'). They need at least another $250,000. I didn't see an agressive plan to raise the money. They didn't even take the names of visitors or ask for contributions. I did buy a new book GEOLOGY IN THE BIBLE by Billy R. Caldwell, Ph.D., a professional geologist from Fort Worth. Someone I would like to know better.

Nancy's second hip replacement surgery is scheduled for September 30 and we are doing doctor's appointments until then.