If a duck floats in water...

I'm taking this God-awful math class in order to keep my hours up this semester. It is meant to show teachers how to give kids the basics in math. I hate it. I usually read over my pathophysiology notes instead of paying attention. Anyways, that's not exactly what this post is about.

The guy teaching the class kept us late tonight so that he could tell us about the Fibonacci sequence. I think the Fibonacci sequence is pretty darn interesting, but never thought it could be used to create such an uneducated and offensive rationale for Creationism.

His reasoning goes like this: The Fibonocci sequence proves that like comes from like. In Genesis, God states that he created each thing so that they would reproduce 'like from like.' Therefore, everything is the same as it was when God created it and the evolutionists are wrong.
And I quote, "Don't let the evolutionists talk you into believing that Creation is wrong because God created everything at once and this proves it."

So, here's my problem with that. For one, the Fibonocci sequence does not state "1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1=1." It states that 1+1=2, 1+2=3, 2+3=5 and so forth. It changes. It grows. It does not stay the same at all. So how does he rationalize it to be an unchanging thing? He's theory is faulty and wrong and he is spreading his lies at an institution of higher learning.

If anything, this sequence could help explain evolution. One person plus one person gives you two diversified gene sets. Introduce a child (#3) into the picture and you have another gene set. So forth and so on, following the sequence. All of this diversification allows for survival of the fittest and and natural selection. Voila! Evolution!

My second beef with this small-minded ape is the way he acted like anyone who believes in evolution is a fool at best and a heretic at worst. I am neither. I have been taught to use rational thinking to make decisions for myself and not simply accept what some Sunday school teacher shoved down my throat. I am a scientist. I am also a Christian. Christianity helps me develop my morals and directs me on how to be a good person. Science tells me how God created this world we live in. In my mind, the two do not conflict because they aren't discussing the same thing.

Look around us! The world is full of proof of evolution. That doesn't mean God doesn't exist. To me, it proves that God does exist.

We live in an amazing place, one that did not just happen by chance. Just because it took God longer than a week (on our scale) to get us to this point doesn't negate the fact that He did it. Why, as Christians, do we have to believe that God breaks His own laws? Do we not believe that He is smart enough to do what He needs to do within those laws?